by Robin | Feb 20, 2010 | Blissdom, Conferences, Favorite things, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens, Videos, Writing, youtube ROCKS!
The Inspirational Writing Workshop at Blissdom remains a warmfuzzymemory for me; Hallmark cardwriters Sarah Mueller and Molly Wigand joined bloggers Casey Mullins and Stephanie Precourt for an inspiration-filled session. It's apparent they love what they do...
by Robin | Jan 23, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Food and Drink, friendship, Life Philosophy, Personal
Over a five-hour dinner at Franklin, Tennessee's scrumptious Saffire, time flew so fast I never noticed it ticking. Compassion International's Creative Relationship Director Steve Jones was in town on business and pleasure, and he thought it would be...
by Robin | Oct 15, 2009 | Advice, Encouragement, Family, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Home, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos
What are the little, almost ignorable things that touch you…that can turn a frown upside down and absolutely make your day? It's almost a joke in my home, the teensy things that "bless" me. {This is more a Southernism than a spiritual...
by Robin | Jun 23, 2009 | Family, Kids, Life Philosophy, Marriage, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos
Interminable quiet bears witness to my house's 327-pound weight loss this week: my children are scattered like birds leaving the nest.Like the paradox of deafening silence, their absence is more conspicuous than their presence. Almost.It's a...
by Robin | Jun 18, 2009 | 15 Words or Less Poems, Life Philosophy, Poetry
I can't help but wonder if my message is clear this week. Bueller? Bueller? Mastery of playis youth's fountain;Its droughtwithers the young.My response to Laura's "15 Words or less" photo-poem challenge. Join...
by Robin | Jun 15, 2009 | Family, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Southern, y'all
Blood and marriage are reason enough to gather on the hottest day of the year to celebrate family, for no other reason than that. It's the Southern Way. On a canvas of conversation broad-stroked with laughter, the fizzy flit of flies joins a threatening...