I love moments of inspiration, like… belting out “Life Is a Highway” while flying down the interstate… watching a herd of deer in our yard in the early morning light… taking aRead More…

We the people of the United States have a unifying mission right now. We’re all grasping for answers. When we ask each other “how are you?” it seems few answer with “fine.”Read More…

2BC (Second Baptist Church*) in Little Rock is 1.9 miles from Central High School. 2BC was my family’s church. I was a little kid in 1957, but I remember September 26 well,Read More…

I never wake up entirely carefree. Maybe it’s because I’m a firstborn, or an INFJ, or good Lord, a writer. But how I envy those who ARE carefree! (I know. Envy isRead More…

I’m writing this on 9/11, a day already infamous for a manmade disaster sixteen years ago and a natural disaster happening as I write. A day for God Questions. About the latter,Read More…

“Bash On Regardless” is a road sign sometimes seen in India. It means “don’t-even-think-about-stopping-or-yielding-right-here.” If you were to stop right there, you would likely get hit by a bus or at bestRead More…

What if God were an app? Key in a prayer and a fraction of a second later, voila! The answer. I would pay big money for that app. The “problem” with GodRead More…

A few months ago, I began praying that my granddaughter would be accepted into a particular charter school. (It’s admission by lottery, but we were hopeful.) She didn’t get in. (At least,Read More…

UN-RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS I recently clicked on a “religious” Facebook video. At first I thought it was a parody, a comedy sketch, until I realized with horror and embarrassment that it was real.Read More…

ROAD TRIPPING I’m on vacation. A road trip. 3012 miles round-trip to be exact. Colorado to North Carolina to Arkansas and back. I stopped for the night in the middle of Kansas.Read More…