Leslie Nease

When my daughter graduated, my husband turned into what I considered to be a “Nazi” parent. He was adamant that she move out and stretch her wings. My daughter was terrified and cried buckets of tears. So did I, actually. She tried …

For the past month, they were celebrated. People dressed them up, told stories around them, prayed near them, lit them up and hung precious family keepsakes on them. They stood tall, beautiful and lush. Soon, they will be in a pile, stacked up, …

Have you ever noticed that nobody pays much attention to the flight attendant at the front of the plane when they are going over all the flight instructions? I was on a flight recently and our flight attendant was showing how to …

“I don’t want to go!” I sat up in bed, turned the light on, and looked tearfully at my husband, Rod, who was almost sleeping. The next day, I would be leaving for China for eight weeks to participate in a reality show …

Bedtime used to be very difficult for our youngest daughter. She seemed to have a lot of fears, and she had a hard time sleeping. I remember going through this as a child. It’s scary sometimes when you start to realize the world is not …

It had been a month of agonizing silence. God felt absent and I felt so alone. What was going on? I could not bear to be told by another well-​​​​meaning person, “The teacher is always silent when the student is taking a test.” With …