Built in the 1950’s, it only had eight lanes, wood wrapped floors and a slow, mechanical, bowling ball rotation, that took you back in time. Four of us played. We carefully propped up our ball, eyed where the bowling pins were, and took our shot. The technique and execution were correct, but each and every ball […]
When Your Family Looks Like An Apple Tree
From the moment I spotted it among the various kinds of fruit trees at the most reputable Plant Farm around, it enraptured me. I am not sure what it was? Maybe because the apples it promised to bare were actually four different colors, makes, and kinds. And that concept blew my mind. That one trunk could […]
Protecting Your Child from Stereotypes and Why Scientist Don’t Always Wear Mustaches
Her head is tucked tight inside of one of the books we picked up from the library. As a home-school mom, I thrive on knowledge, but also the age-old education of good old-fashioned conversation. The kind people originally shared; face-to-face, one-on-one, the older teaching the younger. Because kids, if we let them, can become more than […]
When A Little Boy Connects Two Foster Moms Across The Globe
Like James Bond on a mission with the clock running. Time ticking. Plane leaving. We wind around the streets of Shanghai to come to strong iron gates. Inside, an International School sits resurrected, for all to see. The guard points us in the right direction in Chinese. We drive along smooth cement roads, to find sprawling […]
Meet Timmy
As one remarkable Chinese daughter lands in America, a boy with bridle bone desperately needs parents, our foster family is frozen in a system which has included a two-year battle, yet our foster daughter is still far from legally free… God reminds me of the value of children. “It would be better for them to be […]
Q & A Interview With Cheryl
Know those kind of people where you just know that you know God connected your hearts. Well, Cheryl is one of them. Cheryl is my friend and a fellow blogger. Only God could take two strangers who have never met, 3,000 miles away…and make them friends. This week, I have the humbling honor and privilege of doing […]