BBQ Coleslaw

It’s grilling season, and what goes better with your charred meat than coleslaw? BBQ coleslaw! This is not the stuff of fried chicken fast food restaurants, it’s thick, chunky, and even a great addition to the top of your burger. Ingredients: 1 small head of red...

The Peony Principles

I love flowers. Each spring I wait expectantly for my perennials to bloom and for my annuals to grow. All summer long, I watch and gather hope and courage from their beauty and hardy existence. When pounding rains come, I find myself hoping that my little flowery...

Five Essential Tips to Engage Volunteers

Leaders resemble vessels. We have a limited capacity (yes, it is true!). Consider a ten-ounce bowl. It is impossible for it to contain eleven ounces of water. Once that bowl reaches capacity, additional water forces some to flow over the edge. The same is true of our...

My Summer Bucket List — Kids Edition

Did you see the grown-up version of a summer bucket list I made to help me have a more intentional summer? Hopefully you got some new ideas and inspiration to write up a list that helps you get focused, too. I also wanted to make up a list of fun ideas we all might...

When You Can’t Forget What Someone Said

Tracing letters on the floor with the tips of my scuffed shoes, I sat in a folding chair, my 7-year-old self waiting patiently for my parents to finish their conversations. The evening meeting at Family Camp had ended, and most people had filtered out of the building...