Church has been the center of my spiritual and social life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest and happiest memories include sitting on the front porch, singing “Tell Me The Story Of Jesus,” and planting marigolds in the Sunday school garden. My childhood was filled with hymn sings, potlucks, choir…
Choosing “fight” as my OneWord for 2016 was surprisingly easy – but the day-to-day practicality of living it out sure isn’t turning out to be. What am I going to do on the days when I don’t feel like fighting, or when I’m not sure what I’m fighting for? At the end of last year, the Female Entrepreneur Association…
I have a confession to make. The title of this series changed about 5 times as I perused my shelves. “Oh, but I love this book; I have to tell people about this one.” “No, I can’t include that one; people won’t understand it.” “How can one person read this many books? (Every….
There is something tremendously powerful about a good story. We’ve been telling stories as long as we can remember – around campfires and in pictures on the walls of ancient caves; in pyramids and in long-winded scrolls, on paper, in person, in poetry, in song. Bards and minstrels, rock stars and movie stars, authors and bloggers…
— 1 — Well, hey there! I thought I might put together a 7QT post this week, as a way to say, “Why, yes, I still write!” Those of you who have been reading along for awhile know that this has been an unusually difficult year, and I’ve had a lot going behind the…
