LuAnn C. Collins, Ph.D.

This morning it is snowing. There is a soft drift of marginally large flakes descending. Oddly, they remind me of ash. That may be the...

I was talking to a friend the other day about trusting God to answer, knowing how to discern God’s voice and when to take action. She...

Yet again another assault on human rights, moral sensibilities, the rule of law, the Earth and yet again another friend advises me that I...

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a Black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue....

We look for the achievers, people who have done great things in history when the months to recognize certain groups come around. This is...

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~ Suzanne Somers I just love it when someone the media portrays as a ditz says something I think...

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma...

I was going to have a day of feeling loving, but then I read about a thing called an integrity cleanse and decided to go with that...

My family has all but given up on me. I’m am unabashedly crazy about The Walking Dead. I started with TWD from day one. I’ve been...

Google “fierce hope” and this website comes up: Fierce Hope. Yes, another person dying of cancer. Yes, another person writing about...

Since 1994, I’ve run an annual 13.1 at Thanksgiving. Sometimes in a race. More often on my own. Weather permitting, I stretch, then go...

She stopped inside the door. Her internal compass spun. The room was dark except for light punching through the windows along either...

She was gone for over a week. When I went into the women’s changing room, she was putting her bag in a locker talking to the tall...

I averted a crisis yesterday. Little did I know, but the world was about to come to an end. I’ve been canning. Tomatoes have all but...

I was at one of those wonderful fundraiser dinners the other night where high school students serve the food. Near the end of the...

Let me preface this by saying it is about my needing to upgrade my storytelling skills and not about talking to a brutally honest 10-year...

It isn't that problems are bigger than we can handle. It's that we have been endowed by our Creator to see beyond to an ideal that...

My granddaughter sulked as she got into the car. “What’s up?” I asked her. “The rain, it’s ruining everything,” she frowned. “Like...