I didn’t realize my muscles were tense until the small pop of the sealed white envelope. The host read the winner silently to themselves, then out loud to the waiting world. I watch the Academy Awards, in part, to hear…
When you own a car but you’re not, shall we say, a car guy, you’re often at the mercy of a mechanic. I hate this feeling. Sure, I know the basics—you’re not getting me to buy “blinker fluid.” But when…
It was a dream come true. The perfect business opportunity came to us shortly after my husband was laid off his job due to company downsizing. We would have to relocate from our life-long home in sunny California to not-so-sunny…
What kind of friend are you? Are you the kind of friend who sticks closer than a brother, or the kind that always texts last minute that you can’t make it? Are you the kind of friend that breathes life…
Josh was riding his bike with some friends when they came across an unusual looking paper bag on the side of the street. Wondering what kind of treasure they had stumbled upon, he jumped off his bike, ran to the…
“How did this week’s reading challenge you in your walk with the Lord?” he asked me, looking at me over the top of his steaming mug of coffee as we opened Jerry Bridges’ Respectable Sins. It was 4 a.m. and…