“We’ve tried everything!” is one of the more common testimonials I hear from parents who’ve just described persistent and highly vexing discipline problems with a child or children.

Ah, this spring weather gets me going. I can't wait to start planting the garden. Daniel plowed our garden plot a couple days ago in hopes to have it dry out faster. Digging deeper by plowing also helps some of those buried nutrients to get closer to the surface where the plants will take be…

Life can be so demanding. There are so many challenges always coming our way. There are so many competing issues seeking “equal time” from us. The time comes when we simply have to take time to “center” on just what really is important in our life and what is not as urgent as it seems.

The Wall Street Journal recently (3/16/2019) printed a letter-to-the-editor in which Upland, California psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Charlene Moskovitz promotes the alleged benefits of medication and psychotherapy for children diagnosed with depression, anxiety and ADHD (and, presumably, other…

Today is one of those special days that makes me want to hang around Daniel as much as possible. It’s our wedding anniversary. Nine years ago we were both just bursting with joy, the vows of loving and caring for each other had been exchanged. Next came the long-awaited moment as Grandpa Mas…

Suffering can include: “physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual pain."

To the many readers who recently asked: Yes, I do take requests, and yes, I will riff on the Perpetually Beautiful People Who Laid Out Mega-Bribes to Guarantee That Their Beautiful and Everlastingly Entitled Bratz Get into the College of Their Choice Scandal.

Writing is something I enjoy, in fact in many ways after writing for a while I feel like I've come back from a refreshing walk. As a young school girl I loved writing stories, I would never tell anyone, though. Everyone else seemed to hate writing, especially when it came to stories. Why sho…

There are times in life when things can seem a bit out of sorts. Times when one does not know which way to turn. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to your life. Persons are looking to you for answers, but you have no answers even for yourself!

How about tackling a day in the kitchen, making fry pies? When my sister-in-law, Virginia, first mentioned the thought, it really seemed to be an excellent idea, yet to myself, I wondered how I could do it with our four preschoolers. A couple days later her husband John and Daniel came up wi…

The baseball season is upon us and one of the most important things for a player to do is come up to bat and swing at the ball for a hit!

QUESTION: My 5-year-old has had eating issues since he was an infant. When I introduced solid food at six months, he began rejecting most vegetables. His feeding problems have worsened since then to the point, today, where he will eat only breaded chicken strips, tater tots and vanilla ice c…

I know it sounds lazy, but if I could, I’d just press a button and have a whole batch, yes a whole batch with five loaves of fresh steaming bread right now, straight from the oven. In fact, I’d have a slice right now with butter and plenty of honey! As a little girl, I'd dream of just having…

Elena Lovett shared with me: “God had put me in a place of darkness, so others could see Christ through his love, his mercy, and his joy through me. God uses me so others may see and feel that he is God all by himself!”

You've got to try this recipe. Every time Daniel takes a bite, healmost goes into dreamland.

When we feel lost in life, are we always really lost or are we in the midst of redefining ourselves? When we are not sure what direction in life we are headed, are we without direction or are we charting a new course in life?