Meet the Author
Writer Terese Luikens contributes articles for Mother Earth News, The Secret Place, Decision Magazine, The Upper Room, Hearts at Home, and the Epoch Times and publishes her own blog, Why Bother? A schoolteacher and a yoga instructor, Terese lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, with her husband and enjoys being mother to three grown sons and grandmother to her much-loved grandchildren.
Latest Blog Posts
Why Bother Taking Note of Our Family’s Culture?
Our Family’s Culture Regarding our childhoods, whether an only child, one of many, wanted, adopted, abused, or abandoned our childhoods shaped us. During our formative years, beginning in infancy and ending when we finally flew the coop, our lives took a particular shape based on our family’s culture. Culture, in its simplest definition, is the…
Why Bother Regarding Childhood?
Regarding Childhood It is a new month and I get to choose a new theme! I choose the theme of, regarding our childhoods. Whether we are an only child, one of many, wanted, adopted or abused, we are better adults if we regard our childhoods instead of disregarding them. Our childhoods shape us. During our…
Why Bother Considering, God Stays the Same?
God Stays the Same Today my quote comes from a Fat LiL’ Notebook dated 2009. “The trials may be different, but God is the same.” Back in 2009, my husband and I were launching our last born son. He’d graduated from high school, decided to head to Portland, live with a friend, and see what…