Sunday Contemplation
I can't imagine this not becoming one of the most important books you'll ever read, because it has the capacity to motivate you to want to change how you behave. Now on sale for just $10.99, save an additional 25% on Jean Fleming's Pursue the...
Laughing Lines, Part II
Below is content originally included in my incourage post today but later deleted to meet word count guidelines. Like always, I wrote without regard to length, simply writing until I was done. The result was almost 400 words longer than it was supposed to...
When Community Cliques
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose Those were the days Oh, yes, those were the days. ~ Those Were the Days, credited to Gene Raskin and popularized...
8,773: a different kind of love story
Twenty-one years ago I was walking in the days of great expectation. My first was to be born at the end of a long, hot summer, smack dab in the middle of one of only three months I had told God I did not want to have a baby. He grinned and said, "August it...
A love story and a lesson in two words
Ours wasn't a fairytale romance. It was the kind of courtship that lasted years, where the heart is batted and bruised, where we both made damn sure the other was The One. Oh, sweet youth…where one dares to presume to k n o w such things! There were...
Like Crazy Bargains? Don’t Miss These!
As you may remember, I get a head's up on big sales from the companies for which I'm an affiliate; we got word from DaySpring that they're having a BIG Memorial Weekend Sale! Fifty popular items are discounted 30-60% PLUS you can save another 20% off using code...
The Glorious Misfortune #motherhood
How is it that I've never accomplished being two places at once but she's everywhere I turn? In the blue mason jar on the kitchen counter. (Out of all the glasses I have, these are what she chooses to drink from. Every time.) In the half-eaten Zip-loc of...
A Tale of Three Rocks…
Last month I returned from Germany with precious cargo: three rocks To siphon memory and draw inspiration, I stacked them on the counter when I began to write this , and that’s exactly what my husband and son saw when they walked into the house that...