At the dawn of time, God needed someone He could trust to love His precious children. And so, God made a mother. God said, “Life will often be harsh, so I need someone with a gentle touch. Someone who can brush a tear from the downy cheek of a newborn and gauge a child’s temperature [...]
Once our three children tried to help our goldfish "grow” by squirting lotion into her (his?) bowl. When we found “Strawberry” (the fish had an unlikely name) floating upside down in the bowl, the kids burst into tears. They wailed as I scooped the fish out with a net and put it in a little [...]
One minute, Mark Russell was refereeing a high school football game. The next minute, he was . . . gone. There was no warning.No time to yell out for help. Suddenly, everything went black.I sat in the stands, watching in horror, as someone I’ve known since childhood, lay crumpled on the sideline, gray and lifeless. [...]