by Robin | Apr 24, 2014 | Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
I can’t help but be thankful and marvel at the difference a year makes. I woke up on New Year’s Day 2013 with the weight of What Was To Come handcuffing me to my bed: my fiftieth birthday. I hardly felt like the girl who stretches...
by Robin | Apr 21, 2014 | Adventures in Germany, Europe, Funny Stuff!, Humor, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
I’m out of breath riding backwards on a train sitting across from an Asian student who doesn’t speak English but who does speak German. She’s working on an exam of some sort, using a pencil and block eraser and painting her words beautiful, none of...
by Robin | Mar 13, 2014 | Faith, Inspiring, Memoir, Personal
There was this time when my faith was in crisis, when I questioned if I had ever truly believed what I had professed for as long as I could remember. It was a defining, depressing, dark and desperate season. And it was painfully lonely. If a person could be born a...
by Robin | Feb 21, 2014 | Memoir, Personal, SNOW, Southern, y'all, Uncategorized
i. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up….” It was little more than a punchline to me back when it aired, a TV commercial for LifeCall, a med-alert device for the elderly. Unintentionally campy. A joke’s butt. Easy target for late night...
by Robin | Jan 29, 2014 | Favorite things, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Personal, SNOW, Winter, Women
My friend LeAna dubbed this little jump of mine “The Robin” and I loved it when she’d send pictures of herself (or her son) duplicating the move while living in Europe. Come to think of it, living abroad must bring that out; I only do TheRobin when...
by Robin | Dec 23, 2013 | Memoir, Personal
One of the most beautiful lessons on real beauty came to me as a child. Sealed in the story of a child’s stuffed animal, the lesson has clung to me ever since like velveteen on rabbit ~ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near...