It’s that time of year I get pensive, inward, quiet, reflective, meditative, and a bit disgruntled… Years ago this was my favorite week of the year – my happy birthday week – but when the five’s became sixes I didn’t like it so much! My friend, the man I work for, and I were talking… [Read More]
Proverbs
Book Review: Street Smarts from Proverbs
Street Smarts from Proverbs: How to Navigate Through Conflict to Community by Mitch Kruse My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love the book of Proverbs – so much so that I also wrote a book on it! It is the book in the Old Testament chock full of wisdom and so much more. Kruse… [Read More]
quietude: july 31 2016
This awesome photo is by Adam Byerly of SunlifeStudios.com (used with permission) We’re all traveling – going somewhere. Some of us use a travel guide, some of us use a map or GPS, some of us just wing it. Proverbs warns us that sometimes even when something/someplace “feels right”? – it doesn’t have a good… [Read More]
five minute friday: build
Last night’s party was quite good. Chocolate brownies, oh wait, they were for someone’s husband! There was a chocolate (or was it vanilla?) frozen frappe being passed around with multiple straws. There was joy. There was grief. There was a migraine. There was kudos and congrats. There was a new smartphone owner, oh wait, that… [Read More]
confessions from an empty nest
I know it’s not officially summertime, not until June 21st, but I am definitely in summer mode. There is a certain smell to the mountain air this time of year – I can walk out on the front porch and take a deep breath and, well, it just smells differently than two months ago! Kinda… [Read More]