Giving it Up

Did you know Lent comes from a word that means “Spring”? Seriously, I thought it had to do with sack cloth and ashes. The whole “giving it up for Lent” thing gives the word a bad connotation. But, the word simply refers to a season. The one...

When I’d been dating my future husband only a few months, he took me to his parents’ house for supper. They both worked night shifts, so supper was kind of the first meal of their day. No one talked much, but the food was delicious. When the last potato...