Six silk roses, a gift from somewhere in the past, as perfect as a pair of hands could make them, even to the simulated thorns down the stems.A tiny gold label, glued to one green leaf on each stem, said "Made in Hong Kong" so the creator of my six silk roses was...
Is there such a manual or book that teaches us how to be a perfect mom? Had Google been available when my kids were small, I might have searched for that subject—how to be a perfect Mom.But no video, article or book could ever prepare us for the endless, “Mom…I want.”...
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9In the early and mid-1800s, Peter Cartwright...
"When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10 NIV)Do you remember when you were really young? I remember when I was about 5 months old, I was in my mother's arms, and I remember thinking that this was the best place on earth. I even remember...
The best on the job training I ever got in my life came from a very special woman: my Mom. It happened when I was in my early twenties. I had just recently graduated from college but couldn’t find that well paying job I had been hoping for. With a wife and baby son to...
Many years ago, my first wife and I decided to add an addition to our house. We had contractors do the bulk of the work, while I did the smaller jobs. I did all the siding on both the old and new sections of our house. I installed 1000 square feet of parquet flooring...
The Straw Market in Nassau, Bahamas, can be overwhelming at times. Between the noise, the heat, and the multitude of sellers and their wares, it's hard to know which way to turn. So many of the vendors are so eager to sell their goods that they would sell their...