Living Between the Lines

     There are times in all of our lives when we experience things that will forever affect us. The day that we get married, the birth of a child, the death of a family member; all of these are events that forever leave a mark on us.  As Christians we also include into this list [...]

My last three years of college, I was the student manager of a little cubby-hole in the lobby of Weaver Residence Hall that was known as the Community Resource Desk or CRD. I and my dozen student workers rented movies and video games and sold snacks and drinks from about 6 pm until 1 am [...]

And now for a little something different– just because I wouldn’t want my writing to become too predictable.    I would guess that to some writers, it’s not as important to them where they write as what they write. But to me, where I write is important, too. I want to be comfortable and in [...]

I was so excited about my first summer band camp, which was held in the huge swampy field next to the football field at the high school.  We lived in the neighborhood across the street from the school and so each day, we would walk over to the school and spend hours sweating, marching, and [...]

* Disclaimer: Guys, this isn’t just a blog for the girls.  This is for anybody who has a mother, wife, sister, daughter, or other woman that they love.     Being a woman has often been a miserable experience for me.  I’m not even talking about the hormonal or physical issues.  I’m talking about the [...]

Life is unpredictable. Ten years ago–even two years ago–if you’d told me that today my brother and I would be peaceably living together, I would have laughed at you.  I probably would have broken a rib laughing, in fact.  For most of the last thirty or so years, my brother and I have specialized in [...]

When I was in high school, one of our church members anonymously paid for me to have voice lessons.  I was a soprano and was interested in studying vocal music, so this gift was an absolute God-send for me.  I studied hard, practiced hard, and became the best teenaged soprano I could be. Recently, I [...]

In life, there are these rare but brilliant moments in time when you know that you have experienced something special and unspeakable…  Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods, listening to the raindrops slapping the leaves.  Watching snow fall during the quiet dark of the middle of the night.  Swinging in a [...]

I remember the first time I heard a preacher talk about “walls.”  I was eight years old.  It took me years to understand the implications of that lesson, but I still remember him talk about how we build walls around ourselves to protect ourselves from getting hurt.  But, he warned, “the walls that we build [...]

Believe it or not, about six months of each year, my job is almost normal.  During those times, I type letters, answer the phones, make copies, maintain databases, cut checks, and do financial reports.  Of course, I make up for that “down” time by being off-the-charts busy for the other six months of the year.  [...]