Every family carries stories that explain who they have become. Some are joyful. Some are painful. A few reveal, only after many years, the quiet providence of God weaving through generations. This is one of ours.
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All of our nation’s veterans are due our gratitude for their service in preserving the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. This Veteran’s Day, I pay tribute to my hero, my father, James Edward Cross, gone from this world but not forgotten.
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The Quiet Making of Strong Women Today is International Women’s Day. As happens every year, social media is full of opinions about what that should mean. Some celebrate enthusiastically. Others dismiss the day altogether. The conversations are often loud, passionate, and sometimes divisive. Watching them unfold, I found myself thinking instead about something much quieter.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Again For more than fifty years, children—and the adults who love them—have delighted in the little caterpillar who eats his way through an astonishing feast before quietly transforming into a magnificent butterfly. There is something timeless about Eric Carle’s stories. Their bold colors, simple language, and gentle rhythms invite children into
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There is a peculiar tenderness that accompanies the parenting of grown children. When they are little, you know where they are almost every moment of the day. You buckle them into car seats, tuck them into bed, hold their hands crossing busy streets, and count heads before leaving the playground. Their world is, in many
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I stared in astonishment at the photograph my elderly aunt had recently placed in my hands. The young woman looking back at me could not have been more than eighteen. Her gaze was steady, her posture confident, her expression quietly self-assured. Even more startling was the unmistakable resemblance I saw in some of her features
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A few days after living through a brief season with almost no margin in my life, and just before I was to pick up my four-year-old granddaughter for a morning at the park, I backed my beautiful Toyota 4Runner straight into the trailer hitch of a parked truck. Hard. I was in a hurry. I
