S’s reply, edited for clarity: “Oh, it’s mistletoe. I printed it in case they were missing from your company party.” (Note: he’d been unable...


Walking around downtown Tacoma with my counselor this week, I lamented about something irritating my ex-husband had said in an email to our son. Here...
Sadly, I came to the grievous conclusion that S is an intelligent fool, by the Biblical understanding of those two descriptors. He’s very smart; ver...
Who knew that blogging regularly was such a challenge? Maybe you did, dear reader, but I did not. I write daily in my journal, but sadly, most of thos...


While still working together, I had noticed reluctance on his part to share any real details about himself. Over coffee, it seemed that every time I t...
“Would you like to meet for coffee?”Innocent inquiry, in and of itself. But it led to quite a lot of self-discovery and revelation about healing, ...
When I was young, musician Steve Camp performed a song that had the following line in it:“I want to run a mission a yard from the gates of hell; let...


Whether we love it or hate it, change is inevitable in this life. One of the newest changes I'm walking through is converting my editing 'side-hustle'...
The sermon was on the passage in Mark 4:35-41, where Jesus tells the disciples to take the boat to the other side of the lake and while on their way, ...


Where did the name Discover Your Voice come from? Well, once upon a time, there was a young vocalist who thought that she was doing all the right thin...
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