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 4, 2013 | (in)courage
Continued from My life, in real life {part one} It's amazing how much happened in the last year–especially when I think about ten months of 2012 spent living in Germany! I'll continue to write about my experiences there in the coming months, but for now...
by Robin | Feb 4, 2013 | (in)courage, Books, Personal
Two wonderfully fun things are going on in my life, and it's my pleasure and honor and delight to invite you to be a part of one or both: The job I've recently been offered and accepted a newly created part-time position with (in)courage, their Bloom Book Club...
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 7, 2012 | (in)courage, Family Traditions, Favorite things
One of my favorite things to do is to gift someone I love with something I know they'll love: Surcies, little love gifts, the value of which is seeded in the thoughtfulness of the gift, not its pricetag. It's why giving a...
by Robin | Oct 11, 2012 | (in)courage, Faith, Inspiring
Have you ever had people come into your life and, even if it's not intentional, make it more difficult? Maybe they're critical or judgmental; they're excessively needy and demand more than you can give relationally, emotionally or physically; sometimes...