Someone recently called me a strange bird. When I was younger, this would have thrown me into throes of self doubt, but now I laugh. Mostly. Of course, when someone makes a comment like that, I automatically scroll back through my mind, wondering. Is it because I talk too fast, dart in and out of […]
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This year I tried something new. I joined the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, an association of Christian women, and traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, with my sweet husband to attend the AWSA conference. Ivan spent a day and a half watching the baby while I attended workshops and made connections with other Christian women writers
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This morning my heart was smitten to see my daughter standing on the little stool her daddy made for her, peering out the window in her jammies, teddy bear clasped in one arm. Here are some other things that have given me joy lately: The new-old granite-topped cabinet and setting hen Ivan and I purchased
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Yesterday, Ivan showed me this graphic, and we both giggled for a while. “That’s about right,” Ivan said. Beware marrying a writer, boys! Yesterday, Annalise and her cousin Abby tried out our new kiddie pool, it’s top ring mostly deflated due to Mama growing weary of inflating. I had the shop vac hose turned to
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I write in the stillness of early morning. 6:24 a.m. My daughter sleeps and my husband hasn’t gone out yet. I have stolen some extra minutes–minutes I normally spend snuggled in bed, my legs against Ivan’s, head on his chest–stolen those minutes for time in the quiet where I can write. At 6:00 a.m., the
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