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It’s Good to Live Grateful

I’ve been enjoying something some of my friends have been doing on Facebook this month. Each day, they have been listing one thing they are grateful for. Listed items range from family members, to coffee with a friend to (and I’ve seen this one more th …

The Art of (Online) Conversation

Gab. Chatter. Jive. Powwow. Babble. Rant. Prattle. Those are just some of my favorite synonyms for conversation. I love to talk (which is why I have a job in communications). Words are such an important part of life. They have the power to hurt and hea …

See Better

In Shakespeare’s tragic play King Lear, an old monarch slowly loses his grip on sanity and begins to believe the worst of virtually everyone around him. As his descent into dementia accelerates, one brave soul tries desperately to help Lear see that hi …

Dealing With Our Failures

God knows about your failures and still has a dream for your life, a dream that He hasn’t necessarily put on hold until you get your act together.

A Moment of Reflection

I have been on ChristianCafe.com for a month. In the online dating world that feels like a gajillion years. If you had asked me six months ago if I would ever be on a dating site, I would have laughed and then vehemently told you what I thought of onli …

Men, Membership and Marriage

Trying to figure out why some people find a spouse and some don’t is murky, mysterious business. So let me say right up front that I don’t think there’s any hard-and-fast formula for making it happen, nor am I interested in dishing out a one-size-fits- …

Rows and Rows of Beige

In junior high I had a short-lived interest in latch hook. For those who don’t know, latch hook is that form of pseudo-sewing where you use a latched hook (duh) to loop yarn into a grid-like backing and make rugs, pillows, wall hangings and other fuzzy …

A Wink and a Smile

Winking is a tricky gesture. If done incorrectly, you run the risk of looking creepy. Or like you have something in your eye. I’ve been on the receiving end of some pretty weird winks, and let me tell you, it was uncomfortable. (For the record I have t …

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