by Mary Hasson
"So what's your favorite subject?" "Recess. Or Gym." Sound familiar? It turns out the kids are onto something.

Rating: 5.0/5

by Lori-Hadorn Disselkamp
Cut down, saw dust, splinters of wood remain where once there was a mighty tree. Out there in the open field for all to see and the living trees in the background a view of what once existed before it was transformed into merely a stump, a shortened version devoid of life.

Rating: 4.0/5

by Laura Thieman, MSW
Turbulence. I find it tricky to manage both on the ground and in the air. On a recent flight with my 3 and 4 year olds, I braced myself. The next winter storm was blowing in about the same time we were scheduled to land and there was ever so slight turbulence as we flew. Only to me, any turbulence is A LOT of turbulence. I suddenly started to feel very warm. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe deeply.

Rating: 5.0/5

by Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp
Sitting on the wooden steps Aaron and Ethan handcrafted 4 years ago for the recycle trailer; Jake is "reading" the Sunday comics, while waiting to recycle at our Church. When we work the recycle trailer my children love to find the Sunday comics and look at the pictures. The older children actually read the comics. The comics seem to be the best thing about the newspaper these days. There is so much negative media, murders, crimes, deaths all the bad occurrences locally splashed across the pages. Where is all the good news?

Rating: 5.0/5