by Robin | Mar 30, 2015 | Europe, Favorite things, friendship, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
Last year for my birthday I got a miracle. No exaggeration, textbook definition…I know miracles when I see miracles. It wasn’t that I had the good fortune of celebrating in Vienna, Austria (traveling with my husband on a business trip) or that I got...
by Robin | Feb 19, 2015 | Friends, friendship, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
I was seven months pregnant with my third baby in four years and my sciatic nerve wasn’t happy about it. Juggling a part-time job, caring for two toddlers, and all the other demands of life siphoned every ounce of energy I could manufacture. With no family in...
by Robin | Feb 10, 2015 | Adventures in Germany, friendship, Hospitality, Inspiring, Kitchen, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
Here from incourage’s Friendship on Purpose series? Won’t you please take a moment to subscribe by email or in a reader? Thank you! “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Valentine Miller To say living in...
by Robin | Jan 13, 2015 | (in)courage, Faith, friendship, Personal
My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? {James 2:1 NLT} I don’t think she realized the profundity of her counsel nor the impact that her words would have in my life: “Your...
by Robin | Oct 12, 2014 | Deeper Family @ Deeper Story, Faith, Friends, friendship, Personal
Her tears were watery magnifiers – incredible resolve damming a river – making her impossibly blue eyes look bigger and bluer. I hadn’t known when we made our plans the conversation would go so deep, so fast. Right about then my Belgian waffle arrived, gloriously...
by Robin | Aug 21, 2014 | Encouragement, Friends, friendship
It was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever said, and I wish I could remember more about the context of thinking it and saying it: I don’t really need people. I can even recall the room I was standing in – in our den in South Carolina – so it...