by Robin | May 3, 2017 | Family, Family Traditions, Favorite things, Friends, friendship, Grace Table, Uncategorized
After we got engaged I couldn’t wait to finally get to choose an everyday china pattern and register for our dishes and gifts. (How in the world was that almost 30 years ago?) I didn’t need to choose fine china; I had inherited my mother’s Malden by...
by Robin | May 3, 2016 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Favorite things, Friends, friendship, Great quotes, Inspiring, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing
It was another one of those “When Harry Met Sally” moments. Not the one in the diner, but that one when Marie, Sally’s friend, quotes an article she read without realizing Jess, Harry’s friend, was its author. I had barely arrived at a...
by Robin | Jan 13, 2016 | Family, Family Traditions, Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal, Uncategorized
Looking back through my lens as a parent, it’s difficult to understand why my father allowed it– Me going to an out-of-state college four years, especially in light of what influenced my decision: It was only 90 minutes from home. I loved the Tiger...
by Robin | Jan 4, 2016 | Favorite things, Film, Nostalgia, Personal
I love that I grew up when I did, when you had to get up to change the TV channel, when there were only three networks and manageable choices. You were at the mercy of network programmers as to what old movies they’d re-run on the weekends, and I can remember...
by Robin | Dec 24, 2015 | Art, Christmas, Faith, Family, Favorite things, Personal, Uncategorized
I believe in the art of play. I believe in the play of art. Scripture tells us we’re created in the image of God, and in him we see creativity beyond comparison, imagination with no bounds. Nature screams it in her beauty, her complexity, her diversity....
by Robin | Sep 1, 2015 | Empty Nest, Family, Favorite things, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
It was likely birthed as a gentle correction to my inconsiderate transgression: I had dared to turn down the corner of a page in one of her books. For one so young, she took good care of her special possessions, and there were no greater treasures than her books....