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I heard a challenging message in church on Sunday. It had to do with expectations, both the expectations of others and those we put on ourselves.  While expectations can be healthy personal goals for our productivity and growth,…

Some of you have heard me bemoan the fact that politics brings out the worst in people. In the past two years during the long election months, unkind words were posted daily on social media. Some of…

I’m pretty sure I’ve used this title somewhere before, but it’s such a great one I’m going for it again. Christmas has come and gone. It was a good one with my son and beautiful daughter in…

  Tea and Trouble Brewing by Dorcas Smucker Dorcas Smucker, Oregon writer, Mennonite wife and mother of six, is one of my favorite authors. She recently released her fourth book entitled, Tea and Trouble Brewing. It’s a…

I always tell my friends that I just love a dead body. That, of course, is in regard to my choice of reading material which often turns to mysteries. But, in truth, it’s not the dead body…