Around/About | the “Clear Your Tabs for Cryin’ Out Loud!” edition
Gracious, it's been a while since I Around/Abouted. Some of these links have been sitting in a browser tab for longer than I'm willing to tell you (their publish dates might tattletale, though....). All are worthy of a click, and I hope you'll go through the list...
Love Notes
Sometimes, in a burst of inspiration, you come up with an idea that’s too wonderful to keep to yourself. For almost a year, I’ve been saving something special for (in)courage: a beautiful way to encourage your children or friends who are working for a summer...
The Summer Everything Changes || Thoughts on Empty Nest
Friends keep asking me how I'm doing. It's an understandable question, I suppose, given this is the summer Everything Changes. And maybe I'm misreading all those furrowed brows and sympathetic nods, but I'd swear it seems like they imagine me to be curled into the...
Free Donuts for National Doughnut Day! (Get ’em while they’re hot…!)
If you've never had the pleasure of walking into a Krispy Kreme when the "Hot + Now" sign is flashing and subsequently letting one of their fresh-off-the-glaze-dunking-booth doughnuts melt on your tongue, you're missing one of life's greatest pleasures and a sure...
My Take On The 30-Day Protein Challenge
Today is the last in my four-week Wednesday series for the and I figured it's as good a time as any to admit the truth: I haven't followed it as faithfully as I hoped to, and at times I've let my daily emails stack up for days before reading them. If you...
The Gift of Hospitable Countenance
Wisdom lights up a person’s face, softening its harshness. ~ Ecclesiastes 8:1b There is great possibility in face-to-face encounter. ~ Jean Fleming, Pursue the Intentional Life Have you ever thought about how much your appearance and expressions are communicating...
The Perfect, Most Delicious Way to Cook a Steak
Google "How to cook the perfect steak" and you'll have 6.7 million returns telling you how to do it. Pioneer Woman, Bobby Flay, Emeril, Gordan Ramsay, Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray, Robert Irvine - even Martha Stewart - all have recipes and methods touting theirs as the...
Steakcation
Memorial Day is coming up, the day we honor those courageous men and women who've given their lives in defense of our country…with days off work, parades, and firing up our grills in a culinary salute. As you may know, May is both National Beef Month and Georgia...
Caleb’s Mailbox (Let’s fill it together…!!!)
My nephew Caleb is special. His superpowers are The Best Hugs in the World AND finding M&Ms no matter where you hide them. But Caleb has a problem: it's near 'bout impossible to figure out what to buy the kid during gift-giving seasons like birthdays...