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Happy Mother’s Day!

In honor of Mother’s Day weekend, tell me your mom’s name (or stepmom or mom figure) and 3 words that describe/described her. Here’s mine: Beverly: generous, big-hearted, beautiful Your turn!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. I’m sure y’all knew that already and have sent your favorite teachers, past and present, bon-bons and spa gift cards. The picture above is from eons ago when I taught drama. I made my kids do a musical. Not just a musical, but a western musical. They were slightly miserable, but […]

Life After Will and Kate

I know everyone is sick of hearing about the Royal Wedding, but as I was watching the news last night and waiting, waiting, waiting for the President to come on to tell us what we already knew, I just thought, “What we need is another royal wedding right now.” Harry, Pippa…no pressure. Actually rumor has […]

Q and A Time

Roll call! Is everyone okay after all those storms? My gosh, I was RIVETED to the Weather Channel Thursday afternoon/evening watching that incredible live feed of the gigantic tornado. You can see it here and here and here. I’ve never seen anything like it. My heart just goes out to everyone affected by this week’s […]

I’m Bored

Happy mid-week. Our weather escalated pretty seriously a few days ago, but all is well. Or will be by Thursday. Our local university even let out early for floods. I think that’s happened exactly zero times in the history of the school. They barely let out for snow. (Why I picked that institution of learning, […]

Rainy Days and Mondays and Floods Always Get Me Down

Congrats to winners of Departures: Tammy C, who is good at making her life a musical (a must for any happy life) Lily, who is good at eating ice cream (You’re among friends here, Lily) Mary, who is a great hugger (more calorie friendly than ice cream) Naomi, who is good at procrastinating (I totally […]

Friday Finds

Welcome to the Almost Weekend. Back in the day, schools had Good Friday off. No more. It’s hard to reflect on the Lord when I am working. It’s also hard to watch Good Morning America and Gilmore Girl reruns. Rude. (I also used to watch Dawson’s Creek reruns, until I figured out that no matter […]

Critical Wednesday

Don’t forget our contest for Departures. We have a lot of Christy Miller fans, but with 5 copies to give away, your odds are good! Better than my odds of getting out of school in May. . . or trying sushi. . .or listening to NPR. . . Thanks to Twitter friend Amy Sorrells for […]

Behold My Talent…and A Giveaway

Happy Monday! I sooooo enjoyed our conversation about covers last week. I love it because it’s something everyone has a strong opinion on. You guys suggested some really good ones, and I want to share a few of those later in the week. The five winners of Praying for Your Future Husband by Robin Jones […]

Cover Love and Giveaway

The lovely folk from Waterbrook Multnomah have kindly given me five copies of Robin Jones Gunn and Tricia Goyer’s new nonfiction book Praying for your Future Husband to give away. (Note to Grandma, you cannot enter this one.) The fab Ashley of Waterbrook Multnomah says this about the book, “If you’re familiar with the Christy […]

Now If Only I Could Get Them To Write My Books

Teaching has always been a tough profession, but it’s becoming crazier by the day, with teacher drop outs on the rise. (Half of all teachers quit within their first five years. I think all the money must go to their heads…) Anyway, with all the junk we see, hear, smell, I think it’s definitely the […]

Blog Blurb

I took a little blog vacation this week, totally drained from finishing There You’ll Find Me. (I found me on the couch…I found me at the Mexican restaurant…) Yesterday I had the awesome privilege of being on the Chris Fabry Live show with Becky Shaffer, inspiration and founder of the original Saving Grace, the home […]

Things I Heart For Friday

Happy Friday!! Omigosh, this has been a long and grueling week. I am so happy to see the weekend knocking on my door. I am gonna sleep in Saturday! (Famous last words. Pretty much guaranteeing the ding of a text, the ring of the door bell, or the puke-age of the cat.) Things I love: […]

My Favorite Facebook Day of the Year

So today is my birthday. When you get older, these things kinda creep up on you. Last night I got an early “woohoo, it’s your birthday” on Facebook, and I was like, “Oh. I guess tomorrow is my birthday.” So happy 29th-ish to me. So far I have celebrated my birthday week by: 1. Spending […]

Ringing That Dinner Bell

So the question of the week over at Southern Belle View is “If you could have dinner with anyone, who would you invite?” Totally hop over there and read the awesome guest line-ups from Rachel Hauck, Lisa Wingate, Beth Webb Hart, and Marybeth Whalen. I’m on tap for today, and it’s a total repeat of […]

Song Disclosure

I play this game with my students about once a month. I make them tell me their favorite song of the moment. Not their forever favorite, but the fave of that week. Most of them usually give answers I can’t identify. “I like ‘Tastes Like Kevin Bacon’ by I Wrestled A Bear Once.” Yeah. Me […]

Wedding Bells are Ringing

Wow, the Brandon Heath topic was a hot one. I had no idea the guy had so many loyal (read: obsessive and proprietary) fans! Amy, who has interviewed BH, says we need to start BHFCC–the Brandon Heath Fake Crush Club. Reagan pointed me to my new BH favorite song, “London”. It’s seriously good. Though it […]

Things That Are Cracking Me Up

That picture makes me laugh. It’s from the Dave Barnes-Brandon Heath concert last week. The blind-folded girl was turning 13 and her cousin (right) had swaddled her head to surprise her for the big day. Other things that have made me smile lately… 1. This clip from Ellen. I, too, listen to Snoopy Snoopy Poop […]

Engaged… Again

First of all, you can get a free download of In Between in e-book version HERE at cbd.com. I love the good folk of Christian Book.com and am glad to see In Between for zero pesos. Sigh. It was just a matter of time. As many of you know, I had put in a great […]

On Bloomers and Sudafed

So I got a little run down last week by pulling one working all-nighter, missing sleep here and there, and eating some DCF. (deadline crap food) Anyway, by Friday afternoon, my body said, “No mas!” I felt okay Friday morning, but I could tell Friday afternoon something was really off. Sadly it involved a near-meltdown […]

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