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Treasures

by Robin | Dec 17, 2013 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff

He’s been singing for over an hour. In his room, studying for exams, with the door closed…singing. No matter where I go in our home, I can’t escape his song. This son of mine, prescribed as tone deaf by his preschool teacher (only to me, not...

A Woman’s Super(natural) Power

by Robin | Oct 21, 2013 | Favorite things, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women

Venus and Amor by Berlin sculpture, Reinhold Begas on display at Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. Image by Robin Dance. When my children were all still young, they were demanding little creatures. At times, their relentless needs plucked raw my patience...

WOW, Day 8 :: The Glory of Friendship

by Robin | Oct 9, 2013 | friendship, Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women

Women amaze me. We wield mysterious superpowers often overlooked, dismissed or undervalued amidst a culture where proud is loud and success is too often measured only in dollars– We nurse an infant while potty training a toddler while supper is on the stove and...

WOW Day #4 || Chemical romance

by Robin | Oct 4, 2013 | Family, Favorite things, Marriage, Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Travel, Washington, D.C.

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Vacationing and sightseeing are not the same thing. A good vacation has medicinal value balming soul and spirit with rest and...

If You Can’t Be With The Ones You Love, Love The Ones You’re With (Part 3)

by Robin | Sep 12, 2013 | Memoir, Personal

If you haven’t yet, please read Part One and Part Two. Don’t miss another thing! Subscribe by email (please and thank you!). iii. I arrived in Chattanooga with my arms open wide. Eager for adventure. Expectant. It’s an odd thing how the Lord works in...

If You Can’t Be With the Ones You Love, Love the Ones You’re With (Part 2)

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...