by Shannon Popkin | Jul 30, 2014 | Change
Sorry to be such a stranger lately. I’ve been spending all my free time trying to figure out my new laptop.Isn’t a new computer supposed make life easier? Mine certainly didn’t.The first few days I began using it, I couldn’t find anything....
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 19, 2014 | Anger, Roles, Submission
As a friend and I were enjoying a long catch-up session, she mentioned the difficulties and strains of marriage.As she talked generically about her struggles, I secretly wondered if she gets frustrated with her husband the way I get frustrated with mine. I thumbed...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 5, 2014 | Parenting
Years ago, my husband volunteered as a budget coach for Crown Financial Ministry, trying to help people free themselves from the burden of debt. He had spent the past hour, trying to help some poor guy loosen a few strands of the tangled, heavy debt-mass he had...
by Shannon Popkin | Jun 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Driving through Tennessee last week, my mom and I stopped at a fruit stand to get some peaches. But before we could get to the peaches, we met the man running the fruit stand. And with this particular man, to meet him was to learn his whole life story.One part of the...
by Shannon Popkin | Jun 24, 2014 | Differences
I was in kindergarten, and our music teacher had gathered the class to sit at her feet. She hummed a series of notes and asked, “Did those go up or down?”In unison, the class answered, “Dooooown.”But the teacher responded, “Which one of...