What is it like not to hear and live in a world of absolute silence? While I have spent the last twelve years providing closed-captioning for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, on a personal level, I had no idea what it meant to be deaf. As I…

Recently I have seen degradation in caption quality as many providers have sought ways to cut costs, oftentimes through the use of…

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Leaves floating in the pool always signal the end of summer for me and the beginning of…

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Having never been on television, it was a unique experience to see myself and my family on the screen. I looked way too old on…

My daughter's story will be on Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me" tonight, August 25th, at 10pm EST. She was adopted from Nepal at 3 and five years later had a tapeworm in her brain. I wrote her story a well as her sister's in my book Children of Dreams. Ours is supposed to be the first segment of three. Today Manisha is a healthy 19-year-old. Be inspired! And learn how to prevent the most common neurological parasitic infection in the…

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My daughter's story will be featured on Animal Planet's show "Monsters Inside Me" on Wednesday August 25, 10-11pm EST. The episode number is 210, Shape Shifters (unless they change it between now and then, but this is what they emailed me today).

I wrote Manisha's story in my book Children of Dreams, and to celebrate her incredibly inspirational adoption and healing from a devastating illness, I am offering a free copy of Children of Dreams on each of my websites from now until…

Every summer we have a nesting pair of birds to set up residence in the birdhouse in our backyard. For many years, it was a purple martin house, though purple martins never used it. Great crested flycatchers found it and returned year after year. We knew they had arrived when we heard them in the trees. If they thought I was watching, they would fly away. Toward the end of the summer when the babies had fledged, the squirrels…

After leaving the safety of the stable, the donkey becomes lost in…

As a closed captioner for television, sometimes the news can be overwhelmingly depressing. As I look at the oil spill in the Gulf, the missing child in Portland, Oregon, and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world appears cruel and heartless. If it bothers me, as sinful as I am, I know it must grieve our heavenly Father.

So today I am reminding myself of the heavenly home that awaits me.…

We write what the world needs to hear even if they don't know it. We have a story to tell and the world will literally go to hell if we don't pen or type it (lest you think I exaggerate, I was saved by reading the Gospel of Matthew and not from someone witnessing to me).

In a sense, we are missionaries, and there is plenty of soil to be tilled, planted, and harvested. We don't know when…

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Joy and I stood before the artisan anticipating his newest creation. The old, bearded man picked up a small, clear, glass tube with callused hands and gently stroked it. The two-thousand degree fire spewed from the dragon's mouth and…