Riotous, rapturous with a bit of raucous.  Those are the words on the street today. In the circle of life with its cycles and seasons, it’s the “life” part that

Much living happens down below in the valley and in the daily struggle to ascend to the heights.  There’s little glamor there, one knows, in the sweat and toil, in sun’s glare

If I had to encapsulate the last 16 months, it could be summed up as “The Year of Battle.”  It’s also been “The Year of Waiting.”  And in a peculiar

It was a Negro spiritual, “Oh Happy Day” that spoke to me.  In the movie, it spoke to Penny, too, coming at a low point in her life when going

The reason I’m thinking on this today is because I saw all of this on the face of my little boy this past weekend.  His auntie from the land of

It was Saturday evening, and the Schrocks (the ones that still live here) were converging at Dad Schrock’s place for a bit of patio roof repair before the onset of