If you've been a Momma D follower for a while you may recognize this post from previous years posted about this same time. Yes, it's a...

Way back in the middle of the summer while I was still up to my eyeballs (literally) in yellow squash, green beans, and cucumbers, the...

During my most recent trip to California, my four-year-old, book-loving Josephine asked me to read “The Pout Pout Fish” again. And again....

Back when my now-eight-year-old granddaughter, Laney, was less than a year old, I shared a story with all of you about her first...

This week is part three of our "Please Pass the Memories" series. This week I want to talk about 'lost arts'. Lost arts like baking from...

Who doesn’t enjoy looking through photo albums? The answer: No one. Everybody enjoys looking at the images of smiling faces, families...

At the onset of the pandemic a lot of people...a whole lot of people 'got' what I call a tea bag kind of religion. You can't see any sign...

These days it seems we can't get through the day without hearing words like 'gender neutral', 'birthing person', and 'trans this or...

The year was 1987—July of 1987, to be exact. I buckled my two children into the car and headed back to Rolla to help Granny pack up her...

You probably don’t remember the first time you tasted chocolate, do you? The first piece of chocolate to touch your lips probably came...

I am a child of the 60s--1960 to be exact. I was three years old when President Kennedy was assassinated, but I still remember my mom...

As a farm family, every summer found us participating in fairs. The work that went into getting ready for these fairs wasn’t easy, but...

Who likes the movie, “Lady and the Tramp”? I do. Well, for the most part, anyway. I don’t like the cats. They’re creepy. I don’t like Peg...

In Jesus' parable about the Good Samaritan, we meet a Jewish priest and a Levite who took the same route to travel from Jerusalem to...

My daughter Elizabeth was less than two years old when she announced she wouldn't wear the color gray because in her words, "Gray not...

I wrote two or three different drafts of this article before finally calling it good. It wasn't that I didn't know what I wanted it to...

After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had...

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. ~Psalm 51:10 KJV The other day I was sitting on the couch with...

Over the past several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of several different styles of parenting. Permissive parenting, self-parenting,...

A few months ago I was at a graveside funeral for my uncle. After the service was over, I was visiting with several members of my family....