Tag Archives: family
A Family Problem
The modern American experience nearly ensures every person’s first-hand knowledge of problems within the family. Divorce, abuse, abandonment, conflict, nearly every family experiences at least one of these things first hand. The hurt and broken lives which come parceled with family problems … Continue reading
Meet Your New Grand-Mama!
I think you bear a distinct resemblance, don’t you? You think not? Well, there are approximately four million years of mutations, I mean “improvements,” between you and Mama Ardie. Personally I think she is an improvement on Mama Lucy who, I … Continue reading
Rainy Day for Pooping…Joy!
It’s 4:50am and my morning prayer is already lifted up and I am up out of bed trying to convince myself that I need to go workout. I lose the argument, succumbing to the queasy rumble in my stomach and … Continue reading
Jilted Joy
Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre; and did not allow me to kiss my sons and … Continue reading
That’s Not Fair!
One of the most difficult lessons we have attempted to teach in our household, is the truth, “Life is not fair and we don’t really want it to be.” All three of my children have looked at me with unbelief, … Continue reading
Book Review: “The American Way”
Carlson, Allan PhD. The American Way: Family and Community in Shaping of the American Identity. (Intercollegiate Studies Institute: (c) 2003) ISBN:978-1932236231 I love history texts and I am intrigued by books on societal trends and politics. This work is a … Continue reading