Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response…
Dana VanderLugtNovember 22, 2021
Twenty years ago, in a senior seminar undergrad course, I was assigned to read Frederick Buechner’s essay “Dwarves in the…
Dana VanderLugtMarch 15, 2021
Moving forward in an intentional way involves a lot of sorting. And it involves grief.
Dana VanderLugtFebruary 22, 2021
Murray, our three-year-old golden retriever, is a glutton for attention and refuses to be left out of a book discussion…
Dana VanderLugtAugust 18, 2020
My 14 year-old son sat at a card table in the new makeshift office in my bedroom, complaining about a…
Dana VanderLugtApril 30, 2020
Last Friday, I watched out my office window as children burst out of the doors of their school to board…
Dana VanderLugtMarch 18, 2020
Once a month I get to tell a Bible story to the little ones in our church while the adults…
Dana VanderLugtJanuary 24, 2020
For most of his life, my grandfather managed an apple orchard. We called it Grandpa’s Orchard, though technically the 200…
Dana VanderLugtNovember 27, 2019
“Be more specific,” I used to tell my writing students. “Don’t say cereal when you could say Cinnamon Toast Crunch.…
Dana VanderLugtSeptember 21, 2019
