History, Real Life, and Faith
Because I grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, I’ve occasionally met a celebrity. One of my relatives is even a close friend to a famous movie star. When I was younger, I held them in awe–wow, a famous person–but that changed the day I parked next to a Navy pediatrician at the commissary. (Pediatricians are god-like celebrities when…
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How do you love your neighbor as yourself? What does it mean if your neighbor doesn’t want love? My neighbors and I ran into this conundrum long ago while living in military housing. We lived on the corner of a two-car wide asphalt street without sidewalks, gutters or anything else demarking where your yard ended and the street began. Particularly…
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What happened at Oswald Chambers’ death and memorial service?
There comes a point in researching a book where you have to trust what you know. I’ve been reading, thinking, listening, experiencing, visiting, watching, Facebooking, pinning and contemplating World War I for over a year now. I finally started keeping track on Pinterest of the material I’d examined. Ninety titles today, but still counting. My poor husband is so tired…
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We call it “the Southwest Death March.” Okay, I know it’s hyperbole (with apologies to Bataan survivors), but my friend Linda and I came to see our trip through the southwest desert as just that: a near death march with a happy ending. It started out innocently enough. I sat at my computer supposedly writing a novel when Linda sent…
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When I was growing up in southern California, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was a gym where kids learned to swim and I took gymnastics lessons. We called it the “Y” and I never gave any thought to its real name. The distinctive logo also hung on a multi-storied building in downtown San Pedro, where it was known as…
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