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Does My Child Have PTSD? Releases This Week!
Life's getting more and more exciting on our little Gravel Road these days. Not only is October 13 the official release date for Does My Child Have PTSD? What to Do When Your Child Is Hurting from the Inside Out, but the book also received a starred review from...
What My Dad Taught Me for this Fantastic Friday
This Fantastic Friday post comes from October of 2007. It's one of the first blog posts ever published on Down the Gravel Road. I can't remember the name of the person who's funeral is mentioned. But every day, I remember and treasure the lesson my dad taught me each...
Yummy Apple Dip
Fall is here, which means harvest season in Iowa. Thanks to bountiful summer rains and near perfect growing conditions, the apple crop is plentiful and delicious. Every time the smell of apples greets me at the grocery store, a craving for caramel apples hits. A...
Top Ten Air Travel Thoughts
Long airport layovers give a person plenty of think time. Here are 10 things I've been thinking while sitting in airports lately. 10. Sitting beside a sweet 12-year-old during her first flight ever makes flying fun again. 9. Smart phone boarding passes. Totally worth...
Finding Holiness in the Ordinary
But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith. Jude 1:20 A couple weeks ago I flew to North Carolina on Friday and returned on Sunday. Both flights departed v-e-r-y early. So early that I had to skip my daily exercise routine for an entire weekend....
Lovin’ That Tech Support this Fantastic Friday
In the past 2 months, we've been without internet service twice. For a week each time. So when I ran across this post from September of 2010, it was an obvious choice for this Fantastic Friday. The Man of Steel, who dealt with tech support this time, discovered that...