It seems most high school students have a favorite place to hang out. In Bridge to Haven, Abra and her friends cross the street to Eddie’s, a hamburger joint run by a proprietor who has a soft spot for troubled teens, hiring and rehabilitating them before they end up in the pen. We had a …
Over the past months, I have posted several times on sex trafficking. Rick and I support Crossing the Jordan, a local ministry that is on the front lines. Recently, my daughter, grand-daughter and I attended a rally put on by the Sonoma County Task Force Against Sex Trafficking. Our city and county have become increasingly …
The tabloids are always full of Hollywood love stories, often involving adultery, broken hearts, aberrant practices that the rest of the population is told not only to “tolerate”, but embrace. The Hollywood power couples usually fall apart in a life of constant perusal, flash bulbs popping and what-happened-to-the-happily-ever-after predictions. I don’t read the tabloids, but …
When I was a girl growing up in the fifties and early sixties in a small farm town in Northern California, Hollywood seemed like the most glamorous place in the world. Once in a while, I’d buy a movie magazine, especially if I spotted a favorite television or movie star. I had a crush on …
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
Every story I’ve written has begun with a question or issue with which I’m wrestling. I have particular struggles in my faith walk that seem to come up over and over again. It is easier for me to trust the Lord with my life than it is to trust Him with the lives of those …
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
When conception occurs, all the God-designed instructions of what the person will be are set; sex, eye color, physical attributes, intelligence, gifts. By the second week, the baby attaches and burrows into the wall of his/her mother’s womb. Within the next week, blood vessels and sex cells form. The foundations for the brain, spinal column …
“Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.”
I keep hoping 50s fashions will come back in style. Women looked like women and not starving refugees or sex-trafficked teenagers looking for a john. Fifties style showed off women’s hourglass figures without showing off a lot of skin. Dresses were mid-calf full skirts, belted waists (where waists naturally are) and fitted bodices often buttoned-up …