This one comes courtesy of my husband, who thought festoon was a fun-sounding word probably related to festive, so declared "Word of the Week!" (A common declaration in our house, LOL.) And indeed, not surprisingly, festoon and festive both share that same root of...

As I was having those big conversations a couple weeks ago, the thing that led me to say, "Okay, maybe I need to be the one to foster this, or at least try," was that many, many, MANY people commented or messaged specifically to thank me for the way I was engaging and...

While we've taken a look at artificial here on the blog before, I apparently haven't actually looked more deeply at the history of that root word, art. So...let's! I suppose it's not surprising that the idea of art goes back to the origins of humanity. We are, after...

Last year around this time, there were things that I found upsetting in modern politics. As I sat in Church in an hour of prayer, I laid it all out before God and asked, “Should I speak?” And I very clearly felt Him say no. It was not the time. I didn’t understand...