Are you scrambling to prepare for the new school year right now? Perhaps this week you will be:Filling out back-to-school forms online. Shopping for new shoes and jeans because the kids have suddenly outgrown everything.Cringing because your Walmart bill was $421.39 after simply buying school supplies.And you wonder: Do we need a loan to pay [...]
I didn’t really know how much I loved America, until I left it. Sure I’d traveled abroad before, but I always stayed in a resort somewhere, insulated from how people lived . . . until I went to Ecuador. A true 3rd world experience did me a lot of good.In July 2008, I chaperoned a [...]
The firefly’s only purpose (that I know of) is to shine its light out in the dark. But does it know how beautiful its light is? No. The firefly doesn’t know how shining its one little light produces a wondrous spark against the inky darkness. It can’t see how its light combines with the lights [...]