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 | Jan 23, 2014 | Compassion International, Do Something!, Encouragement, Faith, Love Gifts, Uncategorized
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...
by Robin | Sep 10, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Friends, friendship, Memoir, Mom stuff, Personal
{Continued from Part One ~ subsequent chapters will only make sense if you as a whole – Consider an email subscription?} ii. It was May 2003, not yet summer but the perfect weather for a cook-out. We had planted but now it was time to uproot. We had built and...
by Robin | Sep 9, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Inspiring, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal
She addressed me by my favorite name behind Mom and Aunt, the one that gives shape to identity– “Mama D, why do you talk to us?” I cocked my head to the side not sure what she was really asking, like maybe I was saying too much or dragging her...
by Robin | Feb 19, 2013 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Faith, Inspiring
After 25 years, he still doesn't completely understand me. It was just the two of us alone in the car that day, when I casually mentioned entering the HGTV Dream Home giveaway. "Why do you enter giveaways?" he asks, incredulous that anyone bothers...
by Robin | Nov 22, 2012 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Favorite things, Gratitude, Inspiring, Personal, Thanksgiving
One of my favorite things is an extraordinary, everyday miracle. I'm not speaking of Miracles of Biblical Proportion; rather the simple things that mean little to anyone else and the world to you, and that most people would scoff at and roll their eyes for my...