The past couple of days I have been thinking a great deal about the inauguration. The hoopla of the press, the expense, the whole thing....

December 31, 2024 I started this blog in the early morning of New Year's Eve Day, thinking about the Gratitude Jar lurking behind my...

Suzie Richey (Han Pun Cho) at Osan Air Base, Korea somtime around 1957-1960 Born during the Japanese occupation in Korea, my...

It was May 2023 when my husband, Dave and I were mulching around the shrubbery at our home when I first felt the “twinge”. With each...

As we sail into the 2024 holiday season, whether it’s to buy a tree stand or haul away a broken appliance, setting priorities is...

This is such an appropriate passage for Christmas time. As we enter into the month of December, now is when we begin to fill up our days...

In the dark, early hours of Christmas Eve 2017, I grabbed my laptop and the largest mug of coffee I could cram in a cupholder and drove...

It was the first not-rainy day in ten that a group of 76 women, mostly connected to Living Water Community Church, gathered for a...

Dear Alaska, It’s been roughly 75 days since I walked out of your life and into the one waiting for me back home. There isn’t a day since...

On Friday, June 14, at 10:55 a.m., we left Wrangell Mountain Bible Conference Center with all the ceremony of pulling out of a Walmart...

What Were You Doing Up There? While Ron and Jean Paull have served the community through Copper Center Community Chapel for four years,...

June 13, 2024, Morning Reflection The rain does not end. I am, by nature, an early riser. And, as it turns out, so are most of the men on...

June 12, 2024 It is 6:54 AM, and I am sitting here with Lee, Mel, Jim, and Jason while Cheryl is working in the kitchen, whipping up a...

I have lost countless brain cells, mindlessly scrolling through social media, and Copper Center, Alaska, has imposed a fluctuating ban on...

It is currently 52 degrees in Copper Center, and the buzzing of mosquitos sounds like a Honda motorcycle flying down the highway. Welcome...

Happy Birthday, Daniel. There is no getting around this. I went to bed wondering what I had gotten myself into, and it wasn’t for the...

But First, Pray As I write this, I am less than 24 hours from a ridiculously early morning flight to Anchorage, Alaska. Please pray for...

The honeymoon was over. Save for a copy of the Financial Support Request Letter, the emails from Mel came to a screeching halt with all...

Top Hill, Jamaica, and Copper Center, Alaska stand like goalposts in the Northern Hemisphere, with roughly 4,500 miles between them. And...

There is no easy way to define the wonderful complexities of a modern teenager, so it is practically impossible to find a statistic that...