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FLASH SALES at DaySpring this Week!
Gift giving is one of my love languages, and as a writer for DaySpring's (in)courage website since 2009, I've given a lot of DaySpring gifts over the past six years. Without a doubt, DaySpring cups and mugs are some of their greatest products. I love visiting friends...
Fields of Flags for Your Fourth
This week I noticed that my Memorial Day post from 2012 has been pinned nearly 5,000 times. Folks love pictures of our flag! The following photos come both from our county's Veteran's Day celebrations and a visit to Union Station in Washington, D.C., from the summer...
Summer Reading List: Anchored (with giveaway!)
[Contest closed: Bobbie is the winner!] One of my favorite things about editing a series of books with multiple contributors has been meeting new writers. Although many are old friends, some—like Kayla Aimee—I met during the process. Later Kayla and I became fellow...
Get Your July 2015 Desktop Calendar!
The beauty of God's creation amazes me when I slow down and look for it. This lovely tree was next to our car in a parking lot in South Carolina where we took the kids to play the morning after our oldest son's wedding. It's easy to focus on shooting the events—like a...
The Best Policy
My youngest daughter is as outgoing and precocious as you'd imagine the baby in a family with eight children would be. We welcomed her into our world on a hot June day, in what would later become the week of our annual trip to singing camp in Alabama. In 2011, the...
What it Means to be Winsome today at (in)courage
The spring before I began tutoring high school students in our local Classical Conversations homeschool program, I sat in on another tutor’s class to observe for a day. Latin, British lit, music history — the discussions fascinated me as I imagined someday guiding my...
Meet Me this Saturday at Barnes and Noble!
Releasing a book is a surreal experience. Months pass between turning in a manuscript and holding a book in your hands, months in which you wonder if you imagined the whole thing. At least that's how it was for me. I'd visit my local Barnes and Noble and scan the...
Let’s Decorate Your Desktop for June!
This month's desktop calendar is made from the full image currently in my blog's header. {If you haven't stopped by lately, click on over and check out the new look!} Can you spot the flower in focus? Our oldest son married his long-time girlfriend last weekend and by...
The Evolution of My Home Sweet Home
Today marks the ninth anniversary of this blog, My Home Sweet Home. I'm thankful that the combination of missing my mother and wanting to leave a legacy of words for my kids prompted me to begin, and that you've joined me for the journey, whether you've been here for...
To My First Son on the Eve of His Wedding
You entered our world in the wee hours of a Monday morning in June, almost initiating your daddy into the first-time parent club on Father's Day. He carried a new copy of Fatherhood into the delivery room, not realizing you'd arrive before he had a chance to read any...
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