by Robin | Jun 26, 2014 | Advice, Affiliate links used, Encouragement, Family, Favorite things, friendship, Great quotes, Love Gifts, Memoir, Personal, Real beauty, The Wonder of a Woman, Uncategorized, Women
My sister gave me a gift last week and it made me so happy I screamed. Literally. We were alone in my house sitting on my youngest son’s bed, for a reason I can’t recall now. She handed me a package neatly ribboned and wrapped in the brown paper sack from...
by Robin | Jun 16, 2014 | (in)courage, Aging, Faith, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Uncategorized, Women
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 be....
by Robin | Apr 24, 2014 | Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
I can’t help but be thankful and marvel at the difference a year makes. I woke up on New Year’s Day 2013 with the weight of What Was To Come handcuffing me to my bed: my fiftieth birthday. I hardly felt like the girl who stretches...
by Robin | Jan 20, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Great quotes, Inspiring, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
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, old...
by Robin | Oct 21, 2013 | Favorite things, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
Venus and Amor by Berlin sculpture, Reinhold Begas on display at Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. Image by Robin Dance. When my children were all still young, they were demanding little creatures. At times, their relentless needs plucked raw my patience...
by Robin | Oct 20, 2013 | Around/About {weekly link-love}, The Wonder of a Woman
A collection of links I love, sites I like, interesting reads or cool happenings nearby. For the month of October, I'm featuring blog series for Around/About, writers who are taking part in Nester's #31Days challenge. Last time I rounded up my favorites...