It has been a long and wet winter. When I say wet, I mean it the worst way. There has been no snow just cold biting rain for what feels like weeks at a time. Even when there was no rain, the sky has been gray, giving only a thin blue light through a foggy …
Last year I read a book with my church that challenged me to think differently about my space and my time in relation to my neighbors. I talked about it in my year-end book review. The title of the book is The Gospel Comes With A House Key by Rosaria Butterfield. It is a book of …
It’s soup season! We eat so much soup at our house when the weather turns cold. So I thought I would share some of my best tips for making super soups with humble beans. I asked my friends on Facebook for some tried and true recipes to share because my soup making is usually …
In 2017 our book club was falling apart and we had to change the way we did things to make it easier to read and discuss. We started that year by picking all our books and scheduling our monthly meetings all at once at one glorious dinner and we have not looked back. It is …
As I finished each book on our book club list in 2018, I was inspired to write a prayer of gratitude and response to each one. I shared it with my book club as a benediction to our year of reading and now I share it with you. Each verse corresponds to a book …
As I started to think about my 2018 reader’s review, I saw a post on Facebook that a book blogger and podcaster read something like 200 books last year and I thought, “I’ll never catch up to that.” 200 books is like three or four years of reading for me. I asked my Facebook friends …
A Teen Girl’s Christmas Movie Guide is just what you were looking for, right? Well, I have a teenager who loves Christmas and living with her from October through December is a special treat. Her room is glowing with the golden warmth of twinkle lights a month before the rest of the house is decorated. …
Every year as I put all the decorations away and clear the clutter, I try to go over the last month and a half and take inventory. This year I am posting my holiday reflections here (so that I know where it is next November) and I invite you to join me and recount the …
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It feels like everyone I know is choosing a “word of the year” and I want to resist but I just can’t. I don’t make New Years Resolutions any more, because I got sick of failure. Instead, sometimes I make one or two easy to measure goals, like I just want to weigh less on …
To say that I was having a hard year in 2016 is an understatement. My stress level was so high that my husband sent me to the doctor to make sure that I was not about to have a heart attack. I had to sit down and reevaluate my days and the flow of my …