Author Archives: Steve Sunshine

When is it easiest to be thankful? Maybe on Thanksgiving, when the calendar tells us to give thanks, or when something really dramatic and great happens, or when something really dramatic and bad does...

What defines you?  My daughter Camille is really into theatre at school. Just this week they had auditions for two different shows that the school is putting on next school year.&nb...

My daughter, Camille, frequently makes me proud.  She did it again a few weeks ago when she said she wanted to make some kind of sacrifice for Lent.  Giving things up for Lent has not been a...

Remember the miners who were trapped in Chile for nearly 70 days a few years ago? Our pastor was talking about how for the first 17 days they did not know whether anyone even knew where they were.&nbs...

I can’t figure out how I feel about my kids growing up. Our 14-year old Camille is about to become our 15-year old, and she’s already talking about learning to drive. She’s talkin...

'What have you done for me lately?' I think that mentality is engrained in who we are as Americans. We’ve been called a meritocracy… a society where you are judged by what you achiev...

I love it when something I’ve seen over and over again hits me as though I’ve never seen it before. I’ve heard people talk about how we are “adopted sons and daughters” o...

Imagine this: You get called into your boss’s office. You sit down and he says “Now this is nothing personal…” Has that phrase ever been followed by good news? “Now it&r...