by Robin | Sep 1, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Encouragement, Faith, Gratitude, Great quotes, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
It is raining. There has never been a dryer month in Chattanooga than August 2011, and yet it pours. Growl and hiss, snarl and bite, it’s raining cats and dogs, the dangerous kind. Black lips curl over porcelain daggers, ready to sink in to flesh, to spill...
by Robin | Aug 4, 2011 | Faith, Family, Mom stuff, New York City, Parenting, Personal, Travel
I heard it before I heard it, '70s Seals & Crofts, one of my favorites of theirs. It was only when I stepped out of the shower to towel off that I heard myself humming along to the radio. Life, so they say, is but a game and we let it slip away....
by Robin | Jul 22, 2011 | Faith, Family, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino It is sometimes in dark places I learn to become a mother. The lessons come quiet, and it is in the doing I...
by Robin | Jul 17, 2011 | Faith, Music, youtube ROCKS!
Mark Hall is awfully diplomatic in his new song Courageous, featured in the upcoming film of the same name. Its unspoken battle cry is more like Man! Up!! for goodness sakes! Clearly why I'm not a successful lyricist :). But if you read the...
by Robin | Jul 9, 2011 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Inspiring, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters
To the unacquainted, it seemed like an innocent enough question: "Mom, have you heard of 'kisses from Katie'?" But I saw something–her eyes danced, a fleeting twirl of mystery and expectation and satisfaction; she was already...
by Robin | Jun 18, 2011 | Faith, Family, Humor, Parenting, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
Farmer-meets-Deliverance, Pimp-meets-Steven-Tyler, Bodysuit-meets-Wrong and Pretty-Boy-Meets-Pleather–this ain't your daddy's PGA ~ aka Ben Crane** (bodysuit), Bubba Watson (farmer?), Rickie Fowler (Bieber wannabe), & Hunter Mahan (Lord help him!),...