I found a clipboard in the workroom at church. I used it for a project then stuck it in my drawer--and that's when I noticed the bumper sticker on the back. When they were "Coming Alive in 85," I was a 16-year-old rebel running as far and as fast from God as my still-svelt legs could carry me. I worked at a little office supply store on Main Street, where my love of pens and file folders and downtown was born. It was called Lancaster Office Supply, where one day in 1985 a pastor walked in the...

I live on five acres on the side of a mountain. You can’t see my front porch from the street. My husband and I have busy jobs, and our family lives out of state. We never had kids. We’re from the northeast. And as if all that isn’t enough... We. Are. Introverts. Not the need-a-little-quiet-time kind. The total-silence-for-a-5-hour-car-ride-and-it’s-okay kind. Introversion is defined by Myers-Briggs as “getting energy from dealing with the ideas, pictures, memories, and reactions that are...