Murray, our three-year-old golden retriever, is a glutton for attention and refuses to be left out of a book discussion group that has been meeting,

My 14 year-old son sat at a card table in the new makeshift office in my bedroom, complaining about a physics lesson on potential versus

Last Friday, I watched out my office window as children burst out of the doors of their school to board the buses for what my

Once a month I get to tell a Bible story to the little ones in our church while the adults are in the worship service.

For most of his life, my grandfather managed an apple orchard. We called it Grandpa’s Orchard, though technically the 200 acres of apples (plus 50-some

“Be more specific,” I used to tell my writing students. “Don’t say cereal when you could say Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Don’t say your character walked