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A few years ago, our daughter, who was very young at the time, said something I still haven’t forgotten.
A couple of weeks ago, I came upon a box filled with all kinds of keys—big ones, little ones, shiny ones, some that looked a hundred years old.
One evening in April 1992, a friend and I were taking our twice-weekly walk in the Santa Monica mountains to the north of Los Angeles.
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The courage to give

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Finding the perfect home

When my husband found a new job and our family had to move from our long-term small North German home in Hamburg to Bamberg, a small town in the south neither of us was familiar with, the transition seemed to take forever.

When bombs went off in London

On July 7, 2005, my wife phoned me from her office in London to say there had been an explosion in the street where she worked.

Choose life

A friend who lived hundreds of miles away phoned me and said, “I have a gun to my head and I’m going to kill myself.
I did lots of babysitting as a teenager, and later raised three children of my own.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plan.
“Well, they’re back,” was the sour comment from the man behind me in the grocery checkout line.