by Robin | Oct 30, 2022 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Fathers and daughters, Personal
Have there been struggles in your life where you didn’t have a safe space to process, work through, or even discuss them? Do you have relationships with family or friends marred by unforgiveness, differences of opinion, or underlying complexities that...
by Robin | Dec 28, 2020 | Christmas, Coffee, Family, Favorite things, Love Gifts, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
Sometimes you receive an and you feel the need to tell the world, so… HELLO WORLD — or more specifically — HELLO EVERY COFFEE & HOT TEA DRINKER ON THE PLANET! You’re going to want to keep reading. My kids were particularly excited about my...
by Robin | May 25, 2020 | Blogging, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing
When I started blogging almost 15 years ago, it was a different world. Literally, figuratively, we all know this. You’ve changed, I’ve changed, life as we knew it then, has changed, blogging and the way writing is distributed has changed. Some of this is...
by Robin | May 1, 2020 | Books, For All Who Wander, Personal, Writing
I had almost forgotten about my plans for tomorrow until a reminder popped up on my phone: I was scheduled for abook signing at a nearby Books-a-Million. Apparently, I had failed to delete it from my calendar when the store manager messaged to let me know we’d...
by Robin | Mar 30, 2020 | Love Gifts, Personal, Uncategorized
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 Birthdays are normally a day for personal celebration, but this...
by Robin | Jan 18, 2019 | Life Philosophy, Personal, Uncategorized
I had totally missed it — noticing I ended 2018 similarly to how I began: writing about an attitude of “getting to” do this or that instead of “having to” in both and . Maybe once the idea slipped into my psyche, it quietly settled there...