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Ipad Kitty is Front Page News

The most viewed video on YouTube today is “Iggy Inviestigates an Ipad”. In the video Iggy the house cat chases a cursor around the screen of a brand new, $500 computer.  You can find the link on the homepage of CNN.com .  Riveting stuff. I can’t decide what surprises me more – that someone let [...] Read More >

Tips for Christian Husbands-to-Be

I am not married. Which made writing this post with helpful tips for husbands-to-be a somewhat daunting prospect. “Who am I,” I thought, “to be telling engaged men about married life when I’m not even married?” Therefore, I did what I usually do when I need to write about a topic that’s out of my [...] Read More >

And the Oscar goes to…

This Sunday millions will watch as the Oscars are handed out for the eighty-second time. I will probably watch, although I find the choice of hosting duo Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin a dubious one.  Couldn’t they let Steve handle it alone? I miss Billy Crystal and his musical monologue. An article in the New [...] Read More >

3 Minute Break

This has been a tough week. With all of the heartbreak, all of the horror and helplessness of the images on TV hearts are heavy.  If you need a break, watch this.  I have never seen someone jump like that.  It made me smile, I hope it can do the same for you.  If you [...] Read More >

What do You Want for Christmas?

If there’s one question I hear over and over again this time of year it’s this: what do you want for Christmas?  Amid the gift and the wrappings there is something about this time of year that gives us permission to dream, to be extravagant to hope for something more. Christmas is a time for [...] Read More >

Long Distance Family: 8 Ways to Connect

I have lived at least three days’ drive from my grandparents and most of my extended family my entire life. Though it didn’t surprise my mother, I know it was hard for her when I followed in her footsteps and moved across the continent from her and my dad. The independence that motivated her to [...] Read More >

Gifts: 4 Ways to Skip the Mall

You could say that I am the complete opposite of the Grinch. I LOVE Christmas! “The whole Christmas season”.   If it were up to me Christmas lights would go up in October, the baking would begin as soon as cooler weather hit and everything would get a coat of glitter.  There is only one thing [...] Read More >

Tell Me Your Story

Have you ever wished you had a more exciting testimony? I remember sitting in Sunday School years ago hearing a dramatic story of life and loss and salvation and thinking, “Wow, I don’t have a story like that.  I guess I don’t have a testimony.”  I could not have been more wrong. It can be [...] Read More >

Doing Much with Little

It’s easy to think that charity is something someone else should do, someone who has a lot more money than I do. But the truth is this: it is my responsibility too and I am neither as powerless nor as “un-rich” as I might sometimes think. Wealth and opportunity are incredibly subjective. Those of us [...] Read More >

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