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I heard recently that some people just do not possess the close-the-drawer gene. Evidently these particular humans are simply unable to remember to close drawers and cupboard doors after they have opened them. This seems like sketchy science to me (and in fact, my source was absolutely unscientific), but I have decided to work with …
Hi, all. Thank you for praying for Jada. This has been a rough week, but I think little Jada and her strong mama (and grandma!) are on a slow downhill slope. Please do remember her in your prayers and thank God with me that she is healing. Lindsay blogs beautifully and usually with a frequency …
Take a gander at this lovely girl. My niece. Jada Rae. So stinking cute, it’s nearly painful.I adore her, as I do her mama, her daddy, and her brother. Jada is recovering from a big-dog surgery she underwent last week to repair her cleft palate. I am in awe of smart doctors and their moxie …
Because I love you, I have gone ahead and condensed a spring fashion guide right here, right now. You may write me a thank-you note. But please only do so if you are wearing one of these featured ensembles. First we have the ever-beloved crotch pant. Because we all have great reasons for accentuating that …
I’m really so sad about this man in the news. Photo credit. As you might know from this post we are obsessed with the Olympics. When Mr. Pistorius ran in London this summer, all five of us cheered until our voices cracked. I cried when I heard the humility and grace with which he handled the …
When I first got into this writing gig, I thought I would camp out in a cozy attic room with a gabled ceiling, a roaring fire, and classical music playing in the background. This was the first of many, ahem, misunderstandings about the publishing world. Sometime I’ll tell you the story about when a certain …
The danger of having children is that they imitate you. Sometimes this is flattering, like when they quote your favorite poet or sing your favorite Puccini aria. I speak hypothetically as this has not yet happened at our home. But there are nice imitations, I’m sure of it. And then there are those days when …
Whither we go, we are followed by wildlife. Don’t swoon, you animal lovers. Don’t get happy, you people who like to spend free time at Pet Mart, the zoo, or walking the fields and finding wildlife living their wild lives. We have these. And these. And most recently, these. Photo credit. (I did not take …
Well, people, the transformation is complete. I am officially completely out of it. There was a time when I had seen all of the movies up for Best Picture at the Oscars. In fact, our best friends used to throw an Oscar party where folks would dress up in costumes reflecting their pick for best …
We have a winner! Congratulations, Becca Morgan from New York! Your day (and home) just got a bit brighter, I believe, with the help of Sarah McCoy and her cool stuff. Thanks for entering, folks. I hope you head back to Permanent Collection and Sarah’s Etsy shop when you are next in need of a …
Hoo, boy, am I excited about this giveaway. Here’s the thing: I am weirdo about paper. Seriously weird. My favorite store when I was a kid was a stationery store. I like paper like some people like cocaine. Okay, maybe not exactly like that, but I promise that if cute cards were illegal, I would …
Listen, moms of little ones. I’ve been thinking about you lately. Photo credit. I’ve been talking with some of you and have remembered well and anew the complete exhaustion of being the source of most things in the house. Food source, holding-in-tired-arms source, help-me-to-sleep source, clean-my-tush source…The grand pumba. The big cheese. The very, very …
Happy Valentine’s Day Almost! Do you feel love about this day? Back in the day of big bangs and Pepe jeans, I LOVED Valentine’s Day. It brimmed with promise, even if I had no beau at the time. Flowers, a sweet note, love songs, walks in the rain, tours of medieval castles….wait. That’s Ireland. Sorry. …
Now that I’m noticing signage, I’m really getting a charge out of how weird so many of them are. Who makes signs? Are they the same, humorless people who work at the DMV? I saw a few particularly helpful signs on a recent trip and I felt the grave responsibility of sharing them with you. …
Holy cats, did I happen upon a great book. I honestly cannot remember where I bought it. Do you have this problem? Buying books and hoarding them, stacking them up in your house, by your bed? Compulsively making lists of what you want to read? Purchasing them and then forgetting the time and place because …
Remember high school? Riiiight. Me neither. I’m trying really hard in this moment to remember high school, but I’m afraid all I can remember is big hair and being nervous. Photo source. I don’t think the hair made me nervous but it certainly couldn’t have helped. I’m getting ready to speak at a youth group convention. …
Please, please help me out here. Why the jeggings? Photo source. Try not to concentrate on the fact that this particular woman hasn’t eaten since half-way through the Clinton administration and focus instead on my confusion. Why skin-tight jeans that aren’t jeans, with cuffs that squeeze all the blood out of one’s ankles? I have …
Did you watch the Golden Globes? Yeah, me neither. I had good intentions and I think Amy P. and Tina Fey are hi-larious, but I get so distracted so easily and I think that night I cleaned out my shoe rack. Turns out, the Birkenstocks I bought in the mid-nineties really AREN’T coming back in …
Thanks for entering, for liking, and for thinking about free booties, all in the name of love. Our winner, winner, chicken dinner is….. Stacie Baumler Gorkow! Congrats, Miss Stacie. Kristen of K. Noel will contact you about your spoils. And because a True Random Number Generator isn’t exactly my idea of solid entertainment, I leave …
One of my favorite byproducts about this whole writing adventure has been getting to meet so many creative women. That and crying with my mom every time we get the first printed copy of one my novels. And when people give me chocolate. And when I get to talk about books and get paid for …
I’m so comfortable in this long, leather chair, so I’m just going to continue our therapy session. Is that all right? How does that make you feel? So, this all started at the beginning, see, this fear of public indignities and church. I won’t bring you al the way back to my childhood, though that …
I’m developing a complex about going out in public. Specifically, to church. Specifically, when I sing on the worship team at church. For those of you not hip to all the cheeseball verbiage we Christians employ, usually only around each other but as if everyone else in the world understands, “worship team” does not involve …
I have a friend who is hysterically funny and smart and who collects Bad Jesus Art. You heard me. And you know you’ve seen some. I, for one, get nervous around Jesus art, mostly because images don’t jive at all with how I picture the Jesus that now, today, gives me hope. For one thing, …
We had the great fortune of spending a day at Disneyland recently. While not exactly the Happiest Place On Earth, it was enough fun to keep me from going back during my lifetime us busy. I do have some observations that may prove helpful to those of you considering a trip to the Promised Land: …