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The Secret To Great Writing

by Robin | Dec 5, 2014 | Inspiring, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing

I can still visualize him though I haven’t seen him in over 30 years. A head of hair, still full but thinning, impossibly white and shiny. His shoulders sloped enough to age him but twinkly blue eyes subtracted time. Translucent skin and rosy cheeks and...

The Question All Bloggers Should Ask

by Robin | Nov 7, 2014 | 31 Days: Hints & Tips for College Bound Students, Advice, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I’m in trouble. If you’ll indulge me, can we first look in the rearview mirror? Way back when, I was a daily blogger, no big deal at all. I would roll my eyes when NANOWRIMO came...

Not Now Doesn’t Mean Not Ever

by Robin | Oct 18, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Inspiring, Memoir, Personal

I. I remember it like it was yesterday, when a new-to-me-speaker posed a question that crawled under my skin and has been itching ever since– “Are you the kind of person who walks into a room and declares, ‘Here I am!’ or do you walk into the room and say,...

The Gas Station Evangelist

by Robin | Sep 12, 2014 | Faith, Inspiring

My husband was tethered to our car by the gas pump when I noticed a strange man walking toward us. I was glad chrome and glass distanced us but I felt for my husband, a polite hostage to an uninvited sales pitch. I watched while they talked. The man looked to be...

Sunday Contemplation

by Robin | Jun 22, 2014 | Faith, Great quotes, Inspiring

I can’t imagine this not becoming one of the most important books you’ll ever read, because it has the capacity to motivate you to want to change how you behave. Now on sale for just $10.99, save an additional 25% on Jean Fleming’s...

The Seeker and the Miracle

by Robin | Mar 13, 2014 | Faith, Inspiring, Memoir, Personal

There was this time when my faith was in crisis, when I questioned if I had ever truly believed what I had professed for as long as I could remember. It was a defining, depressing, dark and desperate season. And it was painfully lonely. If a person could be born a...