Jan 10, 2022
Good heavens, this is not how I expected to title my first blog of 2022! Yet, alas, I’m online today for some “real talk” with friends who will “get it.” Our daughter Carly is 23 and has Angelman Syndrome. Her needs are complex and relentless. We have been extremely... 
Dec 20, 2021
Are you experiencing some underlying exhaustion while preparing to make joyful new Christmas memories? Larry and I love the Christmas season! Yet we are coming into festivities with some battle fatigue and frayed nerves from parenting our daughter with disabilities.... 
Jul 28, 2021
The Bible provides many anchoring truths to guide us and spur us on in life. Caregiving families see those truths tested with extraordinary perspective. We also get to see — up close — how a foundation in certain truths stirs our compassion for each other, bolsters... 
Jun 1, 2021
Our guest writer today is Ken Atkins, a man who grew up in the pleasant surroundings of a small North Texas dairy farm during the late 1950s. From there, he wandered through a career that included schoolteacher, newspaper writer and editor, advertising executive and... 
Feb 17, 2021
It was a quiet morning at the oceanfront hotel where we were staying at Virginia Beach. The breeze off of the Atlantic Ocean gently combed the beach grass. Families of birds chased the retreating waves, their footprints too light to make any impression in the sand. I... 
Apr 21, 2020
par·a·bleˈperəb(ə)l/noun A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. If your life was a parable, what would the lesson(s) be? That is a question I began pondering last summer. I was in the process of updating my... 
