by Robin | Jun 16, 2014 | (in)courage, Aging, Faith, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Uncategorized, Women
Below is content originally included in my incourage post today but later deleted to meet word count guidelines. Like always, I wrote without regard to length, simply writing until I was done. The result was almost 400 words longer than it was supposed to be....
by Robin | Apr 24, 2014 | Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
I can’t help but be thankful and marvel at the difference a year makes. I woke up on New Year’s Day 2013 with the weight of What Was To Come handcuffing me to my bed: my fiftieth birthday. I hardly felt like the girl who stretches...
by Robin | Jan 29, 2014 | Favorite things, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Personal, SNOW, Winter, Women
My friend LeAna dubbed this little jump of mine “The Robin” and I loved it when she’d send pictures of herself (or her son) duplicating the move while living in Europe. Come to think of it, living abroad must bring that out; I only do TheRobin when...
by Robin | Jan 20, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Great quotes, Inspiring, The Wonder of a Woman, Women
I read her words and they were hot embers to my heart– they burned glory, only glory, but in my humanity, I received them as a vicious personalassault. The enemy hissed lies and I lapped them up like a ravenous kitten, allowing them to press into tender places, old...
by Robin | Jan 18, 2014 | Mom stuff, Women
In a crowded restaurant with an hour-long, Friday night wait, we scored a high-top table in the bar. The seating and location left something to be desired, but it was worth it for a quicker dinner. After a meal that was quite the entertaining story itself – not...
by Robin | Jan 17, 2014 | Aging, Uncategorized, Women
It won’t be easy You’ll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel ~ “Don’t Cry for me Argentina,” from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber It’s been a joke for years, a decade maybe, and it became stock answer for just about...