I’m not a childcare provider, and my kids are grown so I don’t have little kids running around these days, but my 21-year old daughter is a lead school-age teacher in a daycare facility. She works 25 hours a week, is a full-time college student, and provides daycare for a church on weekends. She’s in… Continue reading Childcare Providers in the Age of the Coronavirus

Last weekend, while out with friends, we were talking about spirits, good and bad, and their proximity to us. My friend articulated my lifelong fears in the most personal way - a fear that spirits would latch on to us when we least wanted them to.  I’ve spent my life avoiding horror movies, conversations related… Continue reading The Visit

There are real-life angels among us, though their presence often goes unnoticed. They are under appreciated, unsung. Except for by the few, those people who can’t imagine life without those angels. The sick. The down and out. The poor. The disenfranchised. And also those who love those folks deeply. Those who see what the angels… Continue reading Angels among us

Sometimes the real story lies in how we face mortality and in those we leave behind. Almost 20 years to the day after losing my own father, we said goodbye to my father-in-law this past weekend. Steve’s father was a man whose faith gave him peace and optimism, whose charm was reflected in his caregivers’… Continue reading Mortality & Grandchildren

There is a kind of man who would stop and check in with an elderly toothless woman just because he knows she waits for him. There is a kind of man who would feed his Mom when she no longer knows to feed herself. There is a kind of man who will cry with joy… Continue reading There is a kind of man