by Robin | Feb 19, 2013 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Faith, Inspiring
After 25 years, he still doesn't completely understand me. It was just the two of us alone in the car that day, when I casually mentioned entering the HGTV Dream Home giveaway. "Why do you enter giveaways?" he asks, incredulous that anyone bothers...
by Robin | Feb 13, 2013 | Deeper Family @ Deeper Story, Faith, Family, Valentine Tea
i. There’s something mesmerizing about the way a creek flows…constant, relentless unapologetic, purposeful; a one-directional wanderer, an effortless meander, masterful sculptress slowly chiseling banks and boulders. Imperceptible erosion or violent torrent,...
by Robin | Jan 18, 2013 | (in)courage, Faith
It took me a split second to process what was happening when he fell on top of me; though my feet were planted in the check-out line at Walgreens, I was a thousand miles away, agitated and completely out of sorts. * * * A wonderful, albeit surreal, true story but I...
by Robin | Dec 16, 2012 | Faith, Personal
– i – I was headed toward the cashier when I noticed him: a man wearing baggy pants, a black raincoat and a skittish demeaner. His eyes surveyed the check-out area, but it was the way he patted the outside of his right pants pocket that made...
by Robin | Dec 2, 2012 | 31 Days in Europe, Adventures in Germany, Beauty, Europe, Faith, Inspiring
For the beauty of the earth, A beautiful remembrance for the glory of the skies, Paragliding near Erlangen, Bavaria for the love which from our birth Floral beauty in Dresden over and around us lies; A chapel in the middle of the Alps, somewhere in...
by Robin | Nov 27, 2012 | Faith, Family, Inspiring, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
A very long time ago, and yet just a blink of the eye, I was the Model Christian Mother. A poster child, if you will, for what you’re supposed to look like if you’re doing all the “right” things as a Christian mom. My car’s radio was tuned only to...