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Not that long ago, I didn’t know the word meme. Then, if I recall correctly, when I first encountered it,…

One day when my daughter was about three, I came home, sat on the couch, opened the afternoon newspaper, and…

The number of moves in the game of chess is practically limitless. While almost nothing looks more orderly than chess…

At least once every year, my Grandma Gillespie would pack my sister, two brothers, and me into her green 52…

Lately, it's easy to get caught up in either anxiety or rage. The speed of cultural change, and the inevitable…

For the past eight weeks, members of my church have been participating in a small group series we called StoryLab.…

“Blessed are the grateful” was a phrase that was used in the church I visited this week, and it made…

“Hey, Grandpa. How do you get people to give money to something?” I’m sitting with my husband’s 101-year-old grandfather at…

Over the last week, I've been at various events around Grand Rapids and Holland and have had the odd, but…

I’m a pretty regular blood donor. At a recent donation, I ran into an acquaintance. Not really a friend, but…