A few weeks ago, my husband and I saw a movie called Yesterday. It's about Jack, a struggling musician who's hit by a bus during a worldwide power outage. When he wakes up, the world is going on like normal, but he quickly realizes things aren't quite the same as they were before. Most importantly, he discovers that he's the only person who ...
The Channel Tunnel -- or the "Chunnel," as it's often called -- is an underwater tunnel more than thirty-one miles long linking France and Great Britain. Though the idea for this tunnel was introduced in the early 1800s, construction of the actual project didn't take place until nearly two centuries later and required six years of work and billions ...
It had been a rough twenty-four hours. I'd volunteered to keep a friend's young children while she went out of town, and to say I wasn't used to caring for four kids at once (hers plus mine) was an understatement. I joked that the second they got in the car, I started calling my kids by the wrong names. I wasn't the only one who struggled; her kids ...
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they may ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. Matthew 18:19-20 (NASB) My church encourages members to join small groups, believing that life is better and faith is stronger when we live in ...
I used to watch a TV show called Blindspot with my husband. I liked the show, but he quickly found it ridiculous – too preposterous to waste time watching. He’s not wrong. The premise and nearly all the story lines are incredibly unrealistic. But I keep watching. And this season has been particularly moving as the main character, Jane, battles an ...
My neighborhood is bursting with color right now. Our next door neighbor has a gorgeous dogwood tree full of pink and white flowers, one that delights me each spring with its blossoms (and disappoints me when they inevitably fall to the ground). The rose bush outside Adrienne’s bedroom window has tiny buds and shoots all over its branches, and ...
Well, it's February. January has come and gone. Nobody has asked about your one word in weeks, it's possible to find a parking spot at the gym, and on the rare occasion you are required to write the date, your hand automatically draws a nine. We are fully into the new year now, and yet some of us are still living in the past. We're not even ...
Last January I took a good, hard look at my life and myself. I sat down and made not just a list of goals but also wrote detailed steps to meet those goals. I was determined not to let another year slip by without making progress on some big parts of my life that, let’s be honest, have been sorely neglected or abused. My health, my career, my ...
When I was in college, a friend introduced me to the movie, Home for the Holidays. Starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr., it’s about the special brand of family crazy that comes out around the holidays. For a group of half-adult, half-child college students preparing to go home for a few days, it was the perfect way to simultaneously brace ...
When my friend Kristen announced she was starting a maternity home in Kenya, I was so impressed and proud and inspired but a little confused. If I’m honest, I didn’t really understand what she was doing or why she was doing it. I’d read her stories as she traveled with Compassion International, and I’d watched her — virtually, from a distance — ...
