Friends in Space

by | Oct 25, 2015 | mercy

When Katie lost her job, I emailed the girls immediately and asked them to pray. After all, when our daughter, Serenity, was first diagnosed with cancer, Katie stopped in at a trendy little bookstore in her Boston neighborhood to buy the perfect Jane Austen plus a...

For the Sake of the Little Ones

by | Oct 18, 2015 | mercy

  I’ve been working on a family tradition this week, and I got a little melancholy. Let’s be real. Some of the fun disappears when you are shopping for grandchildren’s Christmas pajamas in the Men’s Wear Department. Our first grandchild...

All in the Family

by | Oct 10, 2015 | mercy

My siblings and I didn’t have any first cousins. We reveled in the benefits of being the only grandchildren on both sides of the family, and we didn’t even know what we were missing. I didn’t realized the power of cousin friendships until our own...