A month of meditations on the goodness of God — I know this is an awfully big photo of my face but it includes two things that I am grateful for. You see, for years I rejected my curly hair. When I was a teenager I actually ironed — yes, with a clothes iron — my long hair and burnt…

Stress was killing me and I didn’t have a clue — I awoke, grabbed my phone from the nightstand and scrolled through Facebook. A familiar face kept popping up, a colleague had taken his life the previous night. My body reacted immediately. Blurred vision. Ragged breath. Shaky legs. Somehow I managed to get out of bed, go to the kitchen and…

I tried to be nice to my elderly neighbor and here’s what happened — “Why didn’t you say something before the dress was finished?” I asked with more than a bit of exasperation. I was on the phone with Thelma, my neighbor down the street. “I didn’t realize how awful it would look,” she sputtered. “I would never wear anything so, so . …

The remedy was within clear view — My husband and I moved halfway across the country right after our honeymoon. We had hardly opened our gifts when we had to repack and load everything into the moving van. Even before we pulled out of the driveway, I began missing my family and friends. Once we got settled…

This is a good way to use up perishable foods that would otherwise go to waste — On Saturday mornings I volunteer with Foodnet, an urban gleaning program in Lincoln, Nebraska. Several grocery stores and residential facilities donate perishable, short-dated, and cooked foods to our program. We collect the food, box it up, and distribute it to as many as 80 families at our site. Our distribution…