by mcl | Jun 30, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By MIKE TRAYLOR Did the title grab you? I am not writing about the movie with this title but about an attraction that is fatal. This attraction is so fatal that it will cost you your life. What is this attraction? Well, it is the attraction of Jesus. The attraction of...
by mcl | Jun 1, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Charles A. Boudreaux, EdD, LMFT, LPC As I sat in our sunroom and watched the bluebirds check out our birdhouse, I rejoiced when they chose it to be the home to build their nest! In the days that followed the nest was built, eggs laid, and the mother...
by mcl | May 6, 2015 | Columns, Modern Motherhood, Relationships
By Tara Dowden It was Easter Sunday. My husband, Landon, had already headed to church in prayer and preparation for the service. I had four little people dressed, had brushed four sets of teeth, fixed hair, and found four sets of matching shoes in the depths of four...
by mcl | May 4, 2015 | Columns, Let's Talk It Over, Relationships
By Mollie Meeks I recently read that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. When contemplating this, I thought about an 18-year-old friend of our family, Anna Hill, who has been battling ovarian cancer this year, her senior year...
by mcl | May 4, 2015 | Columns, Corporate to Crayons, Relationships
By Betsy Bailey After almost eight years in the medical device world, I decided to retire to be a stay-at-home mom. In 2014, I had a miscarriage, lost my father to cancer, and also had a baby who spent her first two weeks of life in the NICU at Le Bonheur Children’s...
by mcl | Apr 12, 2015 | Columns, Let's Get Real, Relationships
By CAROLYN TOMLIN Five-year-old “Stephen” couldn’t wait until his next birthday. And who could blame him? On his fifth special day, his grandparents gave him a pony. On the fourth birthday, it was an above the ground swimming pool. Rolling her eyes, Stephen’s...