by Kevin Banet | Dec 24, 2025 | Family, Generations, Holidays
Joy From a Child’s Open Arms You wouldn’t expect a restaurant to be a place of epiphany between strangers. Yet that is just what I witnessed two days before Christmas. Our family was dining with our in-laws at a local eatery—one of those places where coffee refills...
by Kevin Banet | Dec 18, 2025 | Family, mental health
A Husband’s Birthday Wish: Drink Away, Dear Loneliness does not suddenly arrive in old age. For many people, it begins much earlier—quietly, invisibly, and often wrapped in moments that are supposed to feel joyful. Birthdays are one of those moments. They are markers...
by Kevin Banet | Nov 26, 2025 | History, Holidays
Found in An Old Book Since it is Thanksgiving, my thoughts return naturally to the early Pilgrims—those weary but hopeful travelers who paused amid hunger, grief, and uncertainty to give thanks to God for a hard-won harvest. They tilled the soil with trembling hands,...
