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Around/About: The “Beauty of Grace” Edition #beautyofgrace

by Robin | Feb 1, 2015 | BIG Announcements, Books, Personal, Uncategorized

Years ago, I crossed paths with a blogger when we both took one of those online quizzes that determined your Celebrity Soul Mates. We both ended up with George Clooney. Later we would go on to meet in real life at a writer’s conference, and when incourage first...

The sweet reminder

by Robin | Jan 30, 2015 | Family, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

When things go according to the way they should, your children will leave you. It’s a sobering thought if you’re lightyears away from that day, but time can be a jerk, stretching days impossibly long but shriveling years tiny, so when the time comes you...

Thoughts and Convictions || {incourage}

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...

The Things You Learn at Boot Camp…!

by Robin | Jan 9, 2015 | Humor, Personal, Teens & Tweens

I think it’s fair to blame it on the fact I’ve never before attended a fitness Boot Camp. Well, that, and my brain and body are offended by the 4:50am wake-up call to get to said Boot Camp on time. They just aren’t fully awake by 5:30....

The Secret To Great Writing

by Robin | Dec 5, 2014 | Inspiring, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing

I can still visualize him though I haven’t seen him in over 30 years. A head of hair, still full but thinning, impossibly white and shiny. His shoulders sloped enough to age him but twinkly blue eyes subtracted time. Translucent skin and rosy cheeks and...

The Apartment

by Robin | Nov 20, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Family, Memoir, Personal

It is one of my earliest memories, certainly the first one I learned on purpose. One-seventy-five-baxter-drive-apartment-J-seven-five-four-three-four-two-eight-one I say it now like I did back then, without a breath in between each word. That’s how I could...