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  Kyren Lacey tied for the lead for most touchdowns by a receiver in his final season at LSU.  He was projected to be drafted into the NFL. ...

Last August, our family packed the car full of totes, toiletries, and extra socks and dropped our oldest off at college.  Next thing you kno...

 We are preparing to send our oldest son off to college.  People keep asking us if we are ready.  I am not sure.  We have the gear.  My wife...

 I noticed the sporadic laughter throughout the funeral and considered it a good sign of life.  The gathering was to grieve loss, yet the to...

Increasingly, leaders, often in hushed tones, tell me that they are wearied, altogether dazed and confused.  They offer desperate vulnerabil...

I spend most of the year waiting for summer and then measuring the season by the cornfields.  When the corn sprouts I'm alive with poss...

Our world careens around the bend, society swaying and swerving as we brace for impact.  It feels as though somewhere out there the road wi...