by Robin | Jan 29, 2009 | Kids, Parenting, Personal
So I'm sitting in my Bible study last night, listening intently to the discussion about Paul putting a smack down on the Galatians (and being on my best behavior because my friend Julie and I had eaten Zalads at Zaxby's and walked in a wee bit late and...
by Robin | Jan 19, 2009 | Celebrations, Family Traditions, Personal, Videos
Read this. Stick with it til the end. Makes me wanna shout this ! * * * * * * * * * * * * *Reading “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” has become an annual tradition for me on MLK, Jr. Day. I don’t remember reading this in school, but it’s...
by Robin | Jan 19, 2009 | Blogging, Personal, Writing
"I saw your picture this morning," said an acquaintance at church yesterday. Me, confused, "WHERE?""In the paper, front page of "Diversions" section, BIG picture, above the fold." We got home, I rifled through the unread Sunday...
by Robin | Jan 17, 2009 | Personal
A long, two-story professional building and its reflective windows–the kind you can see out of but not into–cast a perfect reflection of my car as I slipped into a space in the near empty narrow parking lot. It served as a perfect mirror to check my...
by Robin | Jan 11, 2009 | Family, Memoir, Personal
My father was notorious for imaginative gift-giving, particularly in the last years of his life. Rarely the one to act on a suggestion, if he saw something he thought you needed, he’d get it; never you mind, it was something you couldn’t even sell on Ebay!...
by Robin | Jan 11, 2009 | Advice, Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
The memory is chiseled in my mind as in stone. It was during the season I learned to enjoy my own company, a life-lesson years in the making. Sitting on a park bench sipping a Chick-Fil-A lemonade and reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the fourth time, a cozy blanket...