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Why I’m Doing Whole 30 and A Recipe Born of Desperation

by Robin | Apr 14, 2014 | Health, Personal, Recipes, Whole 30

In hindsight, our timing could have been better. After a wonderful return trip to Germany recently (one reason of many the blog has been so quiet lately), eating and drinking incredible things, we decided to shock our bodies senseless by beginning Whole 30 the...

…open a new door…!

by Robin | Mar 27, 2014 | Art, Favorite things, Home, Personal, Uncategorized

Oh, hai there internet people, long time no see. Well, I have reasons, lovies, and good ones. I’ve kinda-sorta been occupied, some reasons to which I’ve alluded online, but mostly not. For an over-sharer who lives with private people, I imagine...

The Seeker and the Miracle

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...

An Attempt To Explain Why Southerners Love Snow

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...

How writing is EXACTLY like chasing frogs

by Robin | Feb 4, 2014 | Personal, Writing

I took a walk in the woods the other day, the kind of day when I wanted to kiss (rather than kick) the South’s mercurial weather. Or is it everywhere you can have snow and 19 degrees on a Wednesday then mostly sunny and 75 on Sunday? It must’ve felt good...

Love well…

by Robin | Feb 2, 2014 | Faith, Personal

Based on how much I say it, “love” must be one of my favorite words. It punctuates every phone conversation I have with my children and it’s how I tell my husband good-night. It’s what I say when I want your shoes, see a puppy in the window,...