by Robin | Jan 23, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Food and Drink, friendship, Life Philosophy, Personal
Over a five-hour dinner at Franklin, Tennessee's scrumptious Saffire, time flew so fast I never noticed it ticking. Compassion International's Creative Relationship Director Steve Jones was in town on business and pleasure, and he thought it would be...
by Robin | Jan 22, 2010 | Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Faith, Good causes, Personal
In the days since I last spoke in this space, it hasn't been quiet. Inside, my body was attacked by an ugly Creature wreaking intestinal mischief and l was left by the proverbial roadside tired and "less than"……but not near as less...
by Robin | Jan 16, 2010 | (in)courage, Personal, Poetry
I want to push you, swiftly and hard. Not in the way that bruises knees and pride but in the way a mama bird nudges her lovies out of the nest. She knows they're capable of doing so much more, that they only need a little encouragement. Mama knows...
by Robin | Jan 15, 2010 | Family, Humor, Kids, Parenting, Personal
Realizing I was out of coffee tonight angrily demanded I make a grocery run when it was the last thing in the world I wanted to do. Well, a much uglier fate would have been not discovering our dilemma until morning–hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...
by Robin | Jan 5, 2010 | Music, Personal, Videos, Weather, youtube ROCKS!
While the East Coast is blanketed under Winter's arctic fury, what better way to forget about it than to sing about it? I woke up humming this tune, and to my mind's ear I sounded just like Zooey Deschanel in her not-at-all provocative shower scene from...
by Robin | Dec 11, 2009 | (in)courage, Personal
One of my favorite gifts ever received was a box of Kleenex. It was winter and I had a cold, in college and broke, and while the dorm bathroom toilet paper might have been two-ply, to my red and raw nose it more closely resembled sandpaper than pillowy...