by Robin | Sep 30, 2014 | (in)courage, Books, Uncategorized
If you’ve never taken part in an online book club, consider this a personal invitation from me to you. For almost two years, I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of writing the content for Bloom, the book club hosted by {in}courage. If you aren’t...
by Robin | Sep 6, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family
It was just the two of us, alone in our house. My daughter had been digging out everything she’d need for her off-campus apartment, the things she had packed away in drawers and boxes and her closet just three months earlier… The paradox of just yesterday...
by Robin | Sep 4, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Memoir, Mom stuff
Over five years ago, together with Holley Gerth and Annie Downs, I had the privilege of posting on the day {in}courage was born. Yesterday, {in}courage officially commemorated our 5th anniversary with a stroll down memory lane, a free e-book and a big ol’...
by Robin | Jul 27, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
i. It’s four in the morning and I’m wide awake and angry about it; tossing and turning has done little to fuel exhaustion back to sleep. Begrudgingly I receive my insomnia as an invitation to prayer. It’s a sleepy intercession for the troublesome circumstances of...
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 | May 9, 2014 | (in)courage, Adventures in Germany, Faith, friendship, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Nature, Personal
Last month I returned from Germany with precious cargo: three rocks To siphon memory and draw inspiration, I stacked them on the counter when I began to write this , and that’s exactly what my husband and son saw when they walked into the house that day....