[Susan Kimmel Wright] Our American Journey

July 4, 1986, we observed Independence Day at the U. S. Ambassador’s residence outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras with our two-year-old son Tony and newborn Francisca. We didn’t know a third adopted child would be joining our lives the next morning…but that is a story for another time.   The Ambassador had opened the grounds to any

[Janalyn Voigt] Most Popular Cookie of the 1900s | Tasting History, part 3

The United States acquired the Panama Canal. The Wright brothers made the first sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The San Francisco earthquake destroyed about four square miles and left 500 people dead. America declared war on Germany, entering World War I. This was the face of the world in the 1900s. With soldiers

[KD Holmberg] When God Is in Pursuit

I’ve been a devotee of  C.S. Lewis since I was a child. I loved the worlds he created and even imagined slipping through the wardrobe to Narnia. Recently, I read a book about Lewis and The Inklings, the assembly of writers he gathered with in Oxford, England. Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer takes you deep into

[Heather L.L. FitzGerald] But God.

As the world seems to be burning down outside our front door… As fear grips our hearts as we watch from behind masks, hoping COVID keeps its distance… As neighbors report on neighbors (there’s an app for that)… As people die at the hands of both police and rioters… As respect for anyone in authority