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The Supper Club {An Experiment in Community}
Do you feel a little desperate for a girls' night out sometimes? Me, too. Sometimes I casually tell my girlfriends that I'd love a night out, but inside I know Something's Gotta Give. It's natural to crave friendship: sitting around a table together eating and...
Sup With Him
Sometimes I win things. Not so much lately, but enough that my dad used to give me money to play the lottery for him. Last week I won a business card drawing at an Atlanta event. The prize? Three $20 restaurant gift cards. Not just any kind of restaurant, but a small...
The God of the Storm
Weather, like life, is changeable, unpredictable: Two and a half mile wide tornadoes. Flooding. Wildfires. Severe thunderstorms. Two weeks ago a storm hit Atlanta, the kind where family calls to make sure you're okay when it's over. It caught a friend between the...
For the Mothers
Two years ago at Allume I heard Christa Wells sing. I love her sweet voice and thoughtful lyrics, the way she tells a story with words and music. Recently I read the words to the song Oh, Your Love, which she wrote last year for her mother at Mother's Day. Just...
Somedays and June’s Desktop Calendar at (in)courage
I‘ve wasted a lot of time waiting on somedays: Someday I’ll make a workable cleaning schedule and then we’ll have company more often. Someday I’ll become a morning person and have quiet devotionals and get things accomplished before everyone else gets out of bed....
Super Semi-Annual Sale from Blessings Unlimited!
Blessings Unlimited's Super Semi-Annual Sale runs through the end of June, with over 70 items discounted from 20-81%! I'm a Blessings consultant so this is an affiliate link to my personal store. Unfortunately, after the recent Blessings site redesign I can't give you...
How I Spent My 7th Blog Anniversary
Yesterday I commemorated the 7th anniversary of this little ol' blog by celebrating life in the best possible ways with some of my favorite people. To be perfectly honest, I'd forgotten the significance of the day until one of my son's best friends wished me a happy...
To My Graduate
My third son, fresh from his high school graduation ceremony, spent last week on a South Carolina beach with parent chaperones and other graduates from our Classical Conversations program. We parents secretly sent letters addressed to our seniors, to be read as their...
The Best is Yet to Come
Today would have been my mother's birthday. She was in bad health for years, but always told me that she wouldn't trade being where she was to be my age again. I guess wisdom and perspective trump youth. Age is a funny thing, especially when you don't feel older....
Encouragement for the Military Wife
Yesterday our pastor honored the veterans in our congregation. Most of the men he mentioned are in their 60s and 70s, men that I've known for years but didn't think of as military since that part of their lives was before I knew them. I found out that one of my...
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