by Robin | Apr 15, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal, Teens & Tweens, Writing
How can the ordinary be nothing short of miraculous? Before first breath she was wholly dependent on me. Every beat of my heart thundered in her ears, the white noise of mother comfort. My body was her protector, her strength, her incubator…her...
by Robin | Apr 7, 2011 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Food and Drink, friendship, Recipes
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinkingif God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~ Voltaire In a few weeks Easter will be celebrated and families and friends will gather together to honor a risen King; we'll do so around a...
by Robin | Apr 6, 2011 | Beauty, Connect ~ Community by Therapon, Therapon
Zest is the secret of all beauty.There is no beauty that is attractive without it. ~ Christian Dior Sitting in a room full of women, at a dinner generously hosted by Therapon after Blissdom’s closing key note, paradox struck me: How could we be...
by Robin | Mar 14, 2011 | Breast Cancer, Cancer is NOT okay!, Inspiring, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal
I remember seeing her scars one time. Only once. A body disfigured by diseased malevolence, a thief whose plunder demanded dignity and femininity and time…and eventually hope and life. It's a scant memory, a fleeting, vapored ghost, which I...
by Robin | Feb 2, 2011 | Blissdom, Blogging, Conferences, Vlogging
This was too difficult to write (facial expressions capture it much better than words) and too funny a story not to tell, so I offer you my first On Purpose vlog (not to be confused with the accidental one). p.s. I'm not really a vampire;...