I am sitting now in our truck in Illinois with my daughter sleeping with damp golden curls curling around her chin, my three boys huddled over Gameboys and their faces hidden by bony shoulders, and my husband lazily chewing gum as we go down America..

When life doesn’t seem to go our way, at some point in our lives, the inevitable question appears: Why? Many times we ask that question to God and we usually expect a grandiose answer in return. Sometimes the answer is loud and clear, sometimes not so...

Becoming a stepparent is one of the most difficult things that I’ve ever done. When I first met my husband, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I thought I knew, since I have a step-dad and stepsisters, but I really didn’t know. It was like...

In the future, all plant life is dead, the sun no longer shines, there is constant rain and snow, it is cold and strangers are deadly. What keeps a person moving? What would keep you moving? These are the questions pondered in the film adaptation of...

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the...

One of the very first classes that I took in college for English was Introduction to Poetry. Until then, I liked poetry, but I wasn’t quite in love with it. That class started my love affair with poetry. The professor said that poetry was all around us...