Love well…
Based on how much I say it, "love" must be one of my favorite words. It punctuates every phone conversation I have with my children and it's how I tell my husband good-night. It's what I say when I want your shoes, see a puppy in the window, order dessert. It's...
CAPTION THIS! {a Notes From A Blue Bike GIVEAWAY!}
My friend LeAna dubbed this little jump of mine "The Robin" and I loved it when she'd send pictures of herself (or her son) duplicating the move while living in Europe. Come to think of it, living abroad must bring that out; I only do TheRobin when I'm especially...
I challenge you to find a more surprising, delicious, easier, less expensive meal!
Probably the most narrow-minded you'll ever find me revolves around the foods I'm convinced I don't like. Opinions likely hatched from my childhood, there are just some things I will not eat-- Fresh tomatoes. Yes, many are calling to revoke my Southern card over...
What is YOUR is yes?
The first poet I remember liking more than nursery rhymes was e.e. cummings, and I don't think I knew his name was Edward Estlin til now. I was in high school and his words looked like art, and like many of my contemporaries, I believed I could emulate his...
Walter Mitty and the residual affect of how we speak love
I've been thinking about those giant crosses in Chattanooga off I-75, how they provoke response on either ends of the spectrum. And, earnestly, I've been trying to consider the other side, the point of view different from my own... but the closest I get is...
Crosses and Planks
I shared the image online with a one-word caption. Not even a word, really. A number. $700,000. It was vaguebooking at its finest, bait, an indictment. The first comment was a single-word response - Argumentative - and I suppose it was, knowing my own thoughts....
When you are aren’t like her but wish you were
I read her words and they were hot embers to my heart– they burned glory, only glory, but in my humanity, I received them as a vicious personalassault. The enemy hissed lies and I lapped them up like a ravenous kitten, allowing them to press into tender places,...
On Community and Confession
From Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, compelling thoughts on confession, and why it does a body (and a Body) good. If you've never read Bonhoeffer but know you should (wink), Life Together is a short work, an...
We are the world
In a crowded restaurant with an hour-long, Friday night wait, we scored a high-top table in the bar. The seating and location left something to be desired, but it was worth it for a quicker dinner. After a meal that was quite the entertaining story itself - not...