WOW, Day 7 :: Enduring friendship
Recently, through a rather miraculous chain of events, the kind the unimaginative would call mere coincidence, I ran into the parents of a dear college friend. Mr. and Mrs. R. were my parents away from home and it's likely they altered the trajectory of...
WOW, Day 6 :: A wonderful perspective on the beauty of a woman
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself;comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. - Steve...
Around/About: The WOW “They’re too awesome to categorize, too” Edition
A collection of links I love, sites I like, interesting reads or cool happenings nearby. During the month of October (or what I like to call "The Month Nester Takes Over the Internet With Her #31Days Writing Challenge") I'll be featuring some of my...
WOW Day #4 || Chemical romance
“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Vacationing and sightseeing are not the same thing. A good vacation has medicinal value balming soul and spirit with rest and...
WOW Day 3 :: What’s so special about you?? (hint: everything)
image by Steve Lupton, available at At the risk of stating the obvious, I want you to meditate on something today: Out of all the people who've ever been born, you are the only you. By some estimates this means you're 1 in 108...
The birth of wonder (and why I pity men)
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ~ Genesis 1:27 (NIV) I'm inclined to believe God is especially fond of the female gender and you would be hard-pressed to convince me otherwise....
A literary trifecta!!
Three books release today from authors I'm privileged to also call friend: Emily Freeman's A Million Little Ways Pete Wilson's Let Hope In Angie Smith's children's book Audrey Bunny Though I received advance copies of all three, these will be...
The Wonder of a Woman ~ a 31-day exploration
I have a secret. I have a secret I'm SO STINKIN' OVERTHETOP EXCITED ABOUT I CAN BARELY KEEP IT INSIDE!! And since it is my secret, I can decide when to let the kittehs out of the bag, no? In just over a month from now... my blog... is going away!...
An encouragement to daughters
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. ~ Ecclesiastes 4:12 For all but the first four months of high school, I had a boyfriend. It was a tumultuous thing, this teenage romance, full...