by Shannon Popkin | Jul 31, 2012 | Faith, Hardship, Pain, Problems
This lotion was like a magic eraser! When my friend spread it on her daughter’s horrible Eczema, the scales and blisters amazingly disappeared! Jen was so thrilled to be able to give her little girl relief.But within a short time, Jen noticed little bumps...
by Shannon Popkin | May 14, 2012 | Faith, Family, Wisdom
Just a week before my friend, Angela, was to give birth to twins, her husband got a call before work. They told him not to bother coming in that day. They were laying him off. Without saying anything about it, he left the house as if he were going to work. Instead he...
by Shannon Popkin | Apr 3, 2012 | Faith, Fear, Holidays, Media, Teens, Wisdom
Last time, I talked about what I liked–and there’s a lot to like in the Hunger Games. But this time, I’d like to tell you what I found disturbing. I suppose it’s obvious: Rollicking festivities that include the crowd collectively leaning in to...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 27, 2012 | Faith
I really liked this. We don’t think of ourselves as having an umbilical cord attached to God… but where does our food and water and oxygen and everything else we need come from? I look at these babies with such tenderness. If I could, I would tell them,...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 24, 2012 | Beliefs, Faith, Family, Goals, Parenting, Roles
I’m stooped over, washing green marker off the wall. I have a bucket of water at my side and the phone up to my ear. I’m discussing carpool arrangements, but I have to keep excusing myself so I can tell my kindergartner to stop tormenting the girls...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 19, 2011 | Faith, Hardship, Mistakes
My friend was volunteering in her daughter’s class recently, when a little boy came to her for help. He was trying to complete a word search puzzle with his spelling words. He said, “Mine doesn’t have any spelling words in here.”My friend tried...