Ok, so there’s this thing going on in the NFL, a gesture of disapprobation for something some players view as a national problem.  The phe...

Frequently when I'm reading/hearing about white privilege and minority cultures, I struggle to understand. One reason I think this is tr...

For a few years, I was an Awana game director.  I wrote the following to teach leaders what to do during Game Time at our beginning-of-the-...

A couple years ago, a friend asked me to compile things I'd learned about keeping preschoolers busy.  I've been babysitting for abou...

I bowl. I go to Elitch's. I jump on trampolines. I play board games. I wear formal or old-fashioned outfits to stores and parks and lib...

You know that awful feeling when your foot cramps up?  The instinct is absolutely to freeze, tense, since moving made it start hurting.  Bu...

I watched Moana for the first time yesterday. I'm kind of ambivalent about it, since I can think of some good and some bad messages, an...

I’ve read a lot of articles that say, “Don’t ask.”  They’ll be about illness, infertility, divorce.  “It’s personal,” they remind us, “so m...

Once when I was babysitting, I threw a deck of cards on the floor.  Then I sent the various children on scavenger hunts.  The younger ones ...

I was writing the word "stationary" the other day, and wondering like always whether I was spelling the correct word. Then I ha...