Did you ever have one of those days? Days when your To Do list fades to a Wish List and eventually becomes a Bucket List? Days when you're still in your pajamas when the school bus brings the kids home? Days when you have breakfast at lunchtime and lunch at  dinnertime and dinner standing at the counter in front of the late night news? Nah, me neither! But seriously. I may or may not be wearing my pajamas as I write this in the middle of the afternoon. And that's OK. Sometimes. Sometimes it's...

I thought we were friends when we could see each other’s front yards. When I could walk across the street and sit on her porch steps on a southern summer day. But then state lines and travel schedules and soccer games and years proved that our relationship was something different, something more. We were neighbors. In those years of hot humid summers with her deep southern drawl and her cute little boys, she taught me that being a neighbor – the kind Jesus calls us to be – means being present....