Whether they are wandering the streets of Panama or fearful in our own neighborhoods, our response to people who need refuge is important.

There is an app called Blur Photo that allows you to safely post a photo that will, no surprise, blur faces. This Mother’s Day, I...

A few weeks ago we were having a pleasant family dinner on the front porch and when the conversation lagged a bit, my husband thought it...

Yesterday we welcomed 13 new students for the fall session of our Refugee and Immigrant Sewing Enterprise. They came ready to sew, but...

Before we moved into our house last year, we constructed a long list of things we needed to purge and cable television was one of them....

A while back, before I lived in the non-profit world and realized how truly generous most people are, I decided to ditch the corporate...

Our middle child, Erin, started kindergarten at a large public school in a suburb of Tulsa. On her first day at Jenks East Elementary, I...

My proclamation a few weeks before Lent began – that I was giving up grumbling for the six weeks – was probably a relief for the people...

This blog post is about Nambia. Yes, I’m going there. Not literally, because there is no country of Nambia. In a speech to African...

I have a Black Friday shopping story for you. Many years ago Kyle and I got up at 5 a.m. to hunt Furbies, got sick of the whole circus by...

On this day, I feel like I should say something instead of just staying silent. I would prefer to stay silent, however, because the...

It’s been closet-cleaning season at the Tresch house this week. To begin with, last Tuesday I filled two huge bags with clothes and...

I wrote in a previous post that I don’t sew. My mother, however, was a dedicated seamstress for our family and she made quite a few of my...

It’s World AIDS Day. I’m never really sure what I am supposed to do on these days (Earth Day, World Cancer Day, World Mental Health Day,...