Lent 2012 is three weeks away. For my pastor friends, this means a season as busy as Advent, a time when ministers work hard to offer their parishioners Bible studies, Lenten reflections, daily devotional booklets, and sermons on the wilderness experience. For me, Lent marks a …
Prior to this gardening season, the closest contact I had had with plant life was my 7th grade science fair project, which failed miserably. For my project, I secured three identical houseplants, as my experiment consisted of “watering” two of the plants with different substances …
A few months ago, I wrote about one of my mother’s bucket list accomplishments. Recently, it occurred to me that, while I had made many mental notes for my own bucket list, I hadn’t actually written anything down. I had even had a bucket list …