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Flustrated ‘splanations

by Robin | Mar 2, 2010 | Blissdom, Blogging, Compassion Bloggers, Personal, Videos

You know how you can talk about your brother, but Nellie-bar-the-door if anyone else does 'cause you're gonna have to put a hurtin' on 'em? That's how I feel about my Southern brethren…and sisteren, I suppose. "Flustrated" is...

Rubbing elbows with the literati

by Robin | Feb 27, 2010 | Book Review, Books, Friends, Personal, Writing

"Who keeps company with wolves will learn how to howl."~ Spanish proverb I don't know why it j.u.s.t. occurred to me, but my friends write books…a lot of them. <– purposefully ambiguous as to whether or not I mean "friends" or...

Passion, people and patsy-flavored icing

by Robin | Jan 23, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Food and Drink, friendship, Life Philosophy, Personal

Over a five-hour dinner at Franklin, Tennessee's scrumptious Saffire, time flew so fast I never noticed it ticking. Compassion International's Creative Relationship Director Steve Jones was in town on business and pleasure, and he thought it would be...

We interrupt your work day…

by Robin | Jan 14, 2010 | Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Good causes

When asks me to "jump", because I trust it's for good reason, I simply say, "How high?" I can't help it…it's easy to follow a hero. You already know about Haiti's devastation…loss of property…loss of...

Until today, I had never heard the word “Maasai”…

by Robin | Jan 12, 2010 | Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Good causes

What is even more thrilling…life affecting…important to me than a blogging conference with 500 of my blogging BFFs and meeting Harry Connick, Jr.? A million children I will never meet. Last Spring I had the dream-come-true privilege of traveling to...