• Do it with Joy!

    Last week in the Life Skills Class where I help as a paraprofessional, we played a game of Jeopardy on the white board. All the categories had to do with personal safety. The middle schoolers would pick a category like home alone, stranger danger, or technology and then pick a 100-to-500-dollar square in that category….

  • Home by Another Way

    Last Saturday, Tim and I snowshoed up the Split Rock River with some friends. We started from the wayside rest just off highway 61. As we walked down to the riverbed I began to worry because there was no discernible trail. We would be finding our own way. I had never done that before. The…

  • A New Year’s Journey

    On New Year’s Day we hiked the trail around Oberg Mountain. Enough people had walked it that we didn’t need our snowshoes. You did have to be careful not to step off the trail or you would find yourself thigh deep in the snow. Our sister-in-law made one such misstep. We laughed and helped her…

  • Every Child

    The smell of ginger and cinnamon filled our house yesterday. Hannah, our daughter, was home from her clinical rotations and was making ginger cutout cookies. She got the recipe from a cookbook given to her many years ago as a Christmas present from her Aunt Robin. She’s always loved to bake. I helped her finish…

  • The Water Cycle

    Tomorrow the eighth graders at Lincoln Park Middle School will have a science exam on the water cycle. I sit in on third period science and I’ve learned a great deal about water over the last few weeks. For example, did you know that our water, all the water that ever was, is over 3…

  • Hallowed Stories

    On Wednesday I began Bible study at the county jail as I always do by asking the women gathered in the program room the question, “How’s the weather in your soul?” It’s a great way to gage the energy in the group. Will it be a sunny or stormy session? Last Wednesday I added another…