by Robin | Dec 12, 2013 | Christmas, Faith, Love Gifts
Shop Amazon – Give the Gift of Amazon Prime Thank you for shopping Amazon through my affiliate link year-round! Last week I did something I never thought I’d do. In some ways, I even felt bad for the people whose lot it befell every Christmas season: I...
by Robin | Dec 10, 2013 | Christmas, Faith, Love Gifts
Asked in church Sunday – not judge-y at all, and almost said in passing to make a different point – but which has had me thinking ever since. My answer, no my response to my answer, is a game changer. An important distinction was suggested when I shared...
by Robin | Dec 9, 2013 | Christmas, Deeper Family @ Deeper Story, Faith
He slipped in sideways between the closing elevator doors, as if he were late to a meeting; he pressed the “5″ without looking. Instead of suit and tie, though, baggy pants and faded navy hung on his tall, slim frame. His stealth entry stiffened the hairs...
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...
by Robin | Sep 9, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Inspiring, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal
She addressed me by my favorite name behind Mom and Aunt, the one that gives shape to identity– “Mama D, why do you talk to us?” I cocked my head to the side not sure what she was really asking, like maybe I was saying too much or dragging her...
by Robin | Sep 1, 2013 | (in)courage, Faith, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. ~ Luke 15:20b NLT For as long as I can remember, I’ve butchered song lyrics. In Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s...