grace & the dentist

by an odj community member on June 1st, 2012 | one response
I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the dentist office while my son was being worked on. I had taken a book to read to pass the time, but I kept getting distracted by the people coming in. The first one was a man who appeared to be in his early thirties. He was sporting a bright purple... read more »

the wealthy poor

by roxanne robbins on June 1st, 2012 | 2 responses
My close friends Rob and Christi Gebhart and their three young children spent 6 weeks at my home in Uganda this past year. Christi blogged that she and Rob were most moved by the poignant observations their sons made of the Ugandan people. “Early on,” Christi wrote, “Tyler observed how strange... read more »