On the Road with HTHL: Old Friends New Friends
March 7-March 13, 2016 Denver to South Carolina: Range of miles: 2,950-4,575 We started our week by visiting our friends at Focus on the Family (FOF) in Colorado Springs. Our family loves hanging out at Whits’ End indoor playground. I couldn’t resist Wooten’s, (Adventures in Odyssey character), two-story swirly slide. So glad I made the […]
On the Road With HTHL: Happy Mama!
February 29-March 6, 2016 Miles to Date: 1,798 One mom plus a visit with her adult children equals one happy mama! We have a week between conventions and our two boys work at Copper Mountain Ski Resort just outside of Denver, Colorado. It’s a perfect time to visit. So I donned my Copper Mountain sweatshirt […]
Creating Christmas Traditions
I’m a fan of good, wholesome musicals that leave me with a tapping toe, a smile on my face, and something worthy to ponder. Fiddler on the Roof is one of those kinds of musicals. I adore the opening scene. The main character, Tevye, a Russian Jewish father, opens the play with these lines: Tevye: A fiddler […]
A Voice for the Voiceless: An Abortion Story
A Seventh Grader View of Abortion I wrote my first anti-abortion paper in seventh grade. Well, it really wasn’t about abortion. It was about another controversial piece of news known as the “Karen Ann Quinlan Decision. Karen’s parents sought the court’s help to remove life support from their daughter who was in a vegetative state. […]