Wild in the Hollow: a story of the God who makes himself known in the broken places
There are writers and there are w r i t e r s and then there's Amber Haines. Her fingers pour magic the way a rainbow paints the sky. You can't look away and you want 'em to last forever. Her first book, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire & Finding...
A Comprehensive Checklist for College Essentials
~ haven't yet subscribed? please do! ~ Do you have a child who'll be starting his or her freshman year in the next month or so? Trying to determine what he'll need to take with him to college? Thanks to UGA for sending us their list of great ideas, adapted below...
The Wonderful Thing About Growing Up
~ please take a moment to subscribe? ~ I've arrived at that ambiguous age where people tack on a little qualifier when they say something about you, to you-- You look good for your age... Your wrinkles aren't bad for your age... You're exercising as well as you...
A Secret to Lifelong Marriage
We didn't talk for two days after I wrote about him. Them. It wasn't because he wouldn't but because he couldn't. "I know it's all true because I've lived it," he quivers, "but it's still hard to believe when you see it in writing." My words are mirror to...
The One Thing People Always Remember About You
Mind and memory are such a tricky thing, aren't they? We don't always have the luxury of controlling what we'd like to remember - or forget. Some memories are as slick as a greased watermelon, big and colorful but impossible to hold for very long. Others lodge...
Charleston’s Phoenix
I've often said Charleston, South Carolina is one of my favorite cities in the world, a place as colorful and complex as its history. My college roommate was born and still lives just across the Cooper River Bridge, and it was through her I first made...
The Essence of Love || When Love is a Pie
I don't remember so much meeting him that first time, I remember meeting her. She was standing, arms crossed, in their garage, awaiting her oldest son's arrival home with his new girl. I was stunned when I laid eyes on her. Their resemblance was so...
A Confession of a Ragamuffin Princess
I am not a tidy Christian. My faith is battered and bruised, tried and tested...a totter of belief dogged by doubt. There have been seasons I've flirted with walking away from it all - as if I could - thinking it a better way to raise my babies and order our...