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WOW, Day 9 :: An epiphany…and things to come

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

On January 1st this year, I woke up in our guest bedroom, alone. I had injured my knee five days earlier, and still swollen, hurting and icing, it was easier to sleep in our only downstairs bedroom than navigating the hardwood mountain to my room. ...

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...

Why I should learn to act my age

by Robin | Sep 16, 2013 | Humor, Mom stuff, Personal

I have a thing about tan lines. I always have, and given the fact I'm writing this at mid-life, I suppose I always will. My youth was a slather of baby oil and iodine or Hawaiin Tropic–mercy! I can still smell glorious coconut just thinking about it!...

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...