Today's Lenten prayer focus is the disabled. Last week I linked to this article , which says there may be 150,000 amputees in Haiti by y...

I woke up to the news of the 8.8 earthquake in Chile. I have always paid attention to earthquake stories - part of my policy of being obse...

I read once, years ago, that nothing makes you feel more alive than a good sunburn. I've thought about that many times. It's true ...

by Sara Groves Have you listed all the times you've tried Do you call on all your alibis When somebody asks the question why are you hid...

I read another book! Best of all, I can foresee a time when it won't be such an event to read a book. I've started another one, an...

My friend Tara posted this yesterday. Many of these songs have been done to raise money, and I am grateful for each one. This one, though...

After the earthquake, when the internet connection came back up, I wrote to a friend who is a psychologist and asked him, essentially, how t...

Last night at church we sang "Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus." We had this song at our wedding. It's a bit of an unusual s...

Today's Lenten prayer focus in the guide produced by the church I'm attending now is The Poor. A couple of weeks ago I linked to thi...

Today my children took buses to their public schools. I paid nothing for this service and only had to request for it to happen. They went ...

I posted recently about how this earthquake situation feels like a war to me. You can read that post here. The whole time my husband was vi...

Lent is traditionally a time of mourning and grief, and I have never in my life been in a more appropriate frame of mind for the season. As...

A week before the earthquake, on our first day of school after our Christmas break, we gathered in our auditorium, all the secondary student...

The rain we were all dreading finally came.

The following quote was written by the mother of several kids who attended our school in Haiti. I had the privilege of teaching some of the...

Today it has been four weeks since the earthquake. Someone (and I can't now remember who, or find where I read this) wrote that Haitian...

This article, by Nancie Atwell, one of my favorite education writers, is the kind of thing I used to post on my blog before it became all e...

Please read what John and Beth McHoul are posting and donate to Heartline.

When we picked my husband up at the airport on Saturday night, there were two soldiers on the plane. One of the families had a sign welcomi...

Tiel Aisha Ansara wrote an earthquake poem .