A few weeks ago at our niece's wedding, I sat near a beautiful woman who caught my attention. She was laughing, talking, smiling -- and ...

No, I’m not talking about my steak or hamburger. Although, if you ask me how I want those cooked, “well done” might be part of the conversat...

A couple of nights ago, we attended an event supporting Hospice Austin. The room was packed with people whose lives, like ours, had been to...

YOU ARE LOVED! Yes, YOU! Consider this one of those announcements that interrupts regularly scheduled programming because somebody needs to...

We’ve been thinking lately about brave men and women who put on combat boots, leave home and step into dangerous places to defend others. An...

Last Saturday, we headed to Fredericksburg, Texas, expecting a pleasant day in the Hill Country. One of our first stops, just across from th...

Carl and I are what I call movers and shakers. Not necessarily because we’re shaking up the world -- but because we don’t sit still very lon...

  September 16th isn’t just another square on my calendar. It is a DOUBLE CELEBRATION DAY! It belongs to two of my precious girls -- my daug...

Leaving church last Sunday, Carl and I decided to try a restaurant we had never visited. And voilà! The first one that caught our attention ...

We’ve all heard the saying, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” Well, somewhere along the way, some Christians may have adopted another...

Fishing has been part of my life since I was a little girl. I grew up loving it, passed that love along to my children, and now my grands ar...