By Kelly Carr I love to laugh. How about you? Do you recall learning your first knock-knock joke? Doesn’t it baffle you to see what silliness makes kids giggle? My favorite TV shows tend to be comedies. And one of my favorite parts of the North American Christian Convention this past summer was hearing stand-up […]
By Kelly Carr “Hey, Kaelyn, look out the window at that cool bird flying over there. . . . Kaelyn, did you hear me? Kaelyn!” I turned around from the front seat of the car to figure out why my 9-year-old was ignoring me on our drive back from our family road trip. There she […]
By Kelly Carr I have a secret: I’m thrilled by other people’s creativity. When people can create such beauty, such inventive things, especially when it’s nothing I could fathom attempting myself, I am in awe. Everyone Thinks Differently My history of reality TV interests reveals this hobby of mine. I get on a roll watching […]
By Kelly Carr My neighborhood has an interesting history. It was established as one of the first places people lived just outside of downtown Cincinnati. Wealthy residents owned large estates, the streetcar brought people up a large incline to its main intersection for shopping, and the place was bustling. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family lived here, […]
By Kelly Carr “Huh? Sorry—what’d you say?” How many times a day do you say something to that effect? Or how many times a day does someone say that to you? A Skill We Need Around 45 percent of our total communication time is listening—more than speaking, reading, or writing—so it should be a skill […]
