Saturday morning, I promoted to a blue belt level in Taekwon-do. Last night Kevin and I went to the Grand Master’s studio for a more intense class than our regular one. Though at one point I though I might throw up if I jumped or spun or kicked again, I kept going. At the close […]
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I Just Lost Twenty Pounds!
At least it feels like it! Well, I really have never lost twenty pounds before except with the labor of my two children. Men can’t beat it. They stand around talking about how they started working out and lost ten pounds in two weeks. Any woman who’s birthed a child can drop the line, “Oh, […]
Charis Connection
I’m so excited!!! Click on my link to the left and go to Charis Connection, but promise me you’ll come right back! All right. That’s MY question on Ask the Authors Monday! I also asked this question of the expert panel of writers this past weekend at the OCW conference. Wonder why I wonder about […]
Tattletale
I signed Andrea out of school fifteen minutes early so we could make it to her dentist appointment on time. Despite my best efforts at helping her brush her teeth, sticking my huge hands (relatively speaking) into her mouth to floss, and providing a fluoride rinse she ended up with one cavity. In a baby […]
The Not So Funny Pages
Have any of you been keeping up with the comic strip Better or Worse? Michael, one of the boys who’s grown up and married during the time I’ve been following the strip, just received a contract in the mail for his first book. A few weeks ago he returned to a burning house to get […]
The Power of Words
A few nights ago, we watched a rerun of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I’ve loved the show since my sister-in-law first turned me on to it in its first season, but we’ve been trying to cut back our TV viewing over the past year and Sunday nights fell by the wayside. But, oh, how the […]
Why Do You Blog?
Here’s a link to a research survey of…you guessed it: why we blog. www.whydoyoublog.com If you fill out the survey, you will be entered into a raffle to win an Ipod shuffle. I like taking surveys because it makes me feel listened to! 😉 But this really made me think about why I started blogging. […]
The New Frontier
I am giddy, I will admit, at crossing over into a new frontier. Heightening my joy is that fact that it never should have happened. This morning, I reported for jury duty. When I first pulled the summons from our PO Box, I sighed. Then I glanced at the five-year old face at my side […]
Excuses, Excuses
I haven’t blogged for almost a week! Not that there are too many people reading this who might even notice, but for posterity’s sake, for when my great-grandchildren find an old electronic file to read on whatever device they’ll be using then, I want to have shown consistency. But all I’ve got is excuses…I could […]
Passionate Patience
My friend, published author Angela Meuser, introduced me to that phrase. I think every unpublished author needs to post it by his/her computer. Romans 8: 24b-25 is discussing a different subject within the context of that chapter, but I think it applies to being published, too. Who hopes for what he already has? But if […]