Finders Keepers
When Ray and I were in our 20s, we’d never heard of YouTube or podcasts. People listened to talks in two ways—in person and on cassette tape. Back then we heard a popular sermon, which had been recorded first as…
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My Friend Lisa, a Stretchable Mama
I admire my precious friend (I’ll call her Lisa). We met Lisa and her husband (I’ll call him Jeffrey) before they had children. In time they had three. I’ll call them Austin, Kevin, and Rachel. Lisa first knew she wanted…
A Mama in Wisconsin and a Mama in Northern Ireland
I’d like to say a big thank you to all who were able to join us yesterday for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 155th birthday party. It was so much fun. I felt sorry for John because some minor congestion hit him…
The Blessing of Home
Sweet were the days when our children, John, Bethany, and Mary Evelyn, gathered on the couch in the basement of our little house in Illinois, to listen to their own Ma read aloud about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family.…
You are Rare, Unique, and Valuable and So Are Your Children
High on a hill overlooking Latrobe, Pennsylvania, . . . . . . stands the St. Vincent Basilica. Both the exterior and the interior of the structure built around the turn of the 19th century are beautiful. The basilica is…
Copycats
Autumn is the season for migrating if you are a caribou living in Alaska. Migration is something that caribou do together. For the migrating caribou, being a copycat helps them to survive. Sometimes being a copycat is a good thing…