— 1 — It’s finally spring/almost-summer in the Mid-West, and can I just tell you how happy that makes me? It has been warm and sunny for almost a week, and it’s like something within me that I didn’t even know had been wound so tightly is just slowly unwinding and relaxing. I know we…
— 1 — Happy Valentine’s Day! In keeping with the spirit of this series, I decided that this year, instead of wearing black and retreating, I am going to celebrate. I bought myself a box of chocolates, because honestly, I love Whitman’s Sampler chocolates (especially the coconut-filled ones) and they were 50% off. I also…
Today’s post in this series on singleness and the church is a guest post by my friend and neighbor, Erin Thompson. “Nana_Na_Na. Nana_Na_Na. Hey_Hey_Goodbye.” If you are single, it is very likely you just can’t wait till February 15th. When the teddy bears come off the shelves and the roses fade away. When the impending…
— 1 — Wow. What a crazy lot of great conversation has happened over the past week ever since Rachel Held Evans made a simple observation on Twitter about the imbalance between the number of male and female speakers at a recent online leadership conference called the Nines. (You can see the speaker line-up…
— 1 — Yes, in the interest of full disclosure: this is the Saturday edition of #7QT. I meant to write this on Friday. I really did. I have tabs open in my browser that I have kept open almost all week because I wanted to write something about them on Friday for my 7QT post. And when…
