Do you ever feel like the community around us is full of negative? Maybe you hear it daily… prices are up, real estate is down, food is full of bad stuff, my political candidate did not win, …whatever. I hear people say it is hard to be happy in today’s world. They may be right. […]

The coming of a new year is a time of hope and optimism for most people; it is a time when the old ways of the last year can be shaken off and new pathways to new ideas and new ways of living can be formed with a little bit of hope and well applied […]

There were several jars on the Christmas dinner table at our house. Homemade jelly from Aunt Sue, a jar of olives for a special treat, a jar of salsa, and others had their place. But the most amazing jar was an unexplained Christmas gift left on our doorstep by anonymous neighbors. We received a ‘Christmas […]

Problems—we all have them. However, even though we may acknowledge the universality of human difficulties and disappointments, we have a tendency to think that our particular set of troublesome circumstances are somehow unique to us alone. While some of the details of our individual trials may be different, one can be sure that, generally speaking, […]

Did you ever wonder about the children on the Angel Tree? What happens to the toys brought in by the Toy Runners? How do gifts get to the children? Well, here is the true story of one family and what the Angel Tree Christmas meant to them. A local family whose parents both grew up […]