Category: Story of my Life

A Tree For Many Christmases

We put up our tree yesterday, as we always do on the day after Thanksgiving.  It is starting to lose some of its very-fake branches. […]

An Interview With My Grandpa Moss

This is the latest installment of a series about family history interviews. In my last blog post, An Interview With My Grandma Stafford, I shared […]

An Interview With My Grandma Stafford

In my last blog post, Something You Won’t Regret, I mentioned interviewing my maternal grandmother before she passed away.  Following is most of that interview. […]

Something You Won’t Regret

Listen up!  I’m about to tell you something that you will not regret, and you’ll definitely look back on it and thank me for nudging […]

We Can Finally Eat Waffles

Occasionally I like to serve breakfast food for supper.  Oh, I know it’s not the most healthy, low-fat, low-carb, or low-sodium meal, but it’s yummy […]

A Tribute To (My) Grandparents

          I love to watch kids with their grandparents. It doesn’t make sense.  You see, by kids’ normal standards, grandparents should […]

Dear Myself, Teen Edition

  Dear Teen Self, You are a great girl, an amazing creation of God, and you’re doing just fine.  However, there are a few things […]

Keep Catching Apes And Silly Elephants: Don’t Forget Those Silly Elephants

My husband is a professor at a seminary, teaching master’s degree students.  He holds a PhD in Religion from Temple University.  We were married the entire time […]

Bible Quizzing: A Great “Thing”

I think it’s very important for teens to have something positive they’re good at: something that is their “thing” during this phase of life where […]

The Emergency Room Church

Tonight I sit writing this in an emergency room, waiting and waiting. Don’t get all worried. It seems to be no big deal, and I’ll […]