My brother died on a June afternoon. That evening as a major storm rolled in, I felt drawn outside. Wind whipped at my tear-streaked cheeks and blew my hair in every...

The globe in my office shows continents, countries, and names of cities around the world. Each day, I spin the globe gently. After a moment or two, I place my finger...

Growing up in the southwestern United States, we knew that we would have to deal with severe weather from time to time. It could be in the form of drought or...

Many years ago, I assisted a local church with a children’s musical that told the story of the feeding of the five thousand. We used some stage tricks to make this...

Watching the eight o’clock television program one morning made me realize that the clock in our house had stopped. I shook and tapped the clock several times in an attempt to...

I was married to an alcoholic who was abusive. Many days I dreaded what might happen when I arrived home from work. During the hardest nights, I would lie awake worrying...

When I was in the eighth grade at school, I took scripture lessons on a weekly basis. The lessons were about stories from the Holy Bible. My scripture teacher asked us...

I had been noticing the condition of my mother-in-law’s coffee cup for months. The colors had worn, the gold rim had dulled, and now it even had a chip at the...

As an avid gamer, many of my favorites are 2D side-scrolling platformers. A well-crafted game of this type can provide a player with an exhilarating feeling of unstoppable momentum as they...

Ever since my teenage years, Psalm 121 has been important to me. At boarding school it was read to us on the last morning of each term. Verse eight was especially...