by Robin | Sep 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
It was good and it was grace and it was gift I never expected; in fact, I had imagined the opposite. Headed to a place thousands of miles from home where we didn’t know a soul, not speaking or understanding the language, differences in culture and...
by Robin | Sep 1, 2012 | (in)courage, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
I don't see it coming when it happens– Time plays tricks on me. The catalyst? My children, a l w a y s m y b a b i e s. In front of Herrenchiemsee, King Ludwig II's New Palace, on Lake Chiemsee in Southern Bavaria,...
by Robin | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Does your mind immediately go to those physical attributes you wish were different? There's two kinds of those, of course. The kind God knit together in secret places and before time…and...
by Robin | Aug 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
In need of tender loving, my yard called me out the other day. Sometimes a place is so lonely it shows. There was work to be done, the kind that slippers you in a film of sweat and grime and manufactures nasty blisters, an unpleasant reminder that garden...
by Robin | Aug 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I cannot believe I missed it, something everyone else I've talked to seem to notice right away. I can't believe it went right over my head and never, ever, EVER occurred to me until someone else pointed it out. I've always thought I was one of those...