Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing […]
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) A few weeks ago, my family headed out for a mini-vacation at a resort town a few hours from home. It had been almost a year since we’d had any kind of a getaway, thanks to COVID-19. Our hotel had a splash pad and a pool […]
Last week, a friend of mine shared a meme. It depicted an old man in front of a bingo board. Above him was a picture of a weather radar showing twin hurricanes hurtling across the Gulf of Mexico. “Who had double hurricanes on their 2020 Bingo card?” the caption read. Twenty-twenty has certainly felt like that bingo card. My family […]
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, […]
Strategies for Balancing a Full-Time Job and Homeschooling A colleague instant messaged me from her newly established home office this week. “Are you laughing at all of us trying to get adjusted to working at home?” she quipped. She has two kids who are at home with her because of school closures. I chuckled, but replied, “No. I’ve had years […]
I’m not a big hotel vacationer. I’d rather rent a home-away-from-home scenario wherein we can cook our own meals, toss in a load of laundry, hook up the Xbox if it’s a rainy day, and not worry about whether we need to get out so the cleaning crew can do their thing. Also, we like road trips. They’re a lot […]
