A warm and friendly sweet chocolate welcome to readers coming over from The Gyspy Mama for Five Minute Friday. I usually participate in the Friday funfest, but knew I would be headed out of town early this morning, so I planned a post. Later, I saw the twitter feed mentioned below, “How do you […]
7 Day Stamina Challenge: Baring your soul on Day 6
September 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Here we go again, on the roller coaster of growth and change: This isn’t bad. Ok, it’s a little disconcerting. Oh. My. Gosh. I’M GOING TO DIE!!! Whew! Guess not. Let’s do it again! Chug, chug, chug…Where are we? Oh, yes, Day 6: Go public – Tell at least two people about your big, hairy, […]
Doing different, Stamina Challenge Day 4, and time to tell my story
September 8, 2011 By 10 Comments
I must admit to being completely stumped when I read today’s challenge: Break your routine – Drive a new way to work. Stop at a different place for coffee. Lock your cell phone in your trunk as you drive. Listen to a different station the whole way in; don’t change the channel during a commercial […]
Stamina Challenge Day 3: How not to rev up your morning walk
September 7, 2011 By 11 Comments
Welcome to Day 3 of the 7 Day Stamina Challenge! For any new readers let me bring you up to speed: We are arising a half hour earlier than our normal time (that’s 4am for me!), writing in our journal, and today, we are enjoying God’s countryside in all its morning glory for a […]
Excavating a really BIG idea Day, Stamina Challenge Day 2
September 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
Welcome to the second installment of the 7 Day Stamina Challenge. I arose a half hour earlier than my regular time, at 4:00am, just like yesterday. I can hear some of you now (I know who you are!): “Are you kidding me? What is the point? 4? People actually get up at 4? It’s dark […]
Five minute Friday: Rest
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Every Friday I join Lisa-Jo over at The Gypsy Mama for her Five Minute Friday thoughts. It’s an opportunity for each of us to throw caution, grammar and spell check to the wind as we whip through a quick five minutes of a topic, just straight from the heart to the head to the keyboard […]
Toasted marshmallows and a life lesson
August 31, 2011 By 5 Comments
If you thought an event slipped by us yesterday, you are right: National Toasted Marshmallow Day rolled right past without so much as a wave of a wooden skewer. In honor of this missed momentous occasion, I thought I would share a story from our past of a dark summer’s night and the […]
Five Minute Friday: New
August 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
Every Friday I join Lisa-Jo over at The Gypsy Mama for a quick, no edit writing topic, and we each watch, often in surprise, at what appears beneath our tapping fingers in the short span of five minutes. This week she asked for suggestions, and today our prompt is about New. So let’s have it […]
Beets that go Boom
August 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
I was making dinner the other night, and tossed sliced beets into the microwave for a reheat. I went into the office to quickly check my email and heard a low and quick “BOOM!”, followed immediately by popping type sounds, and then another “BOOM!”. I ran back into the kitchen, stopped the microwave, and […]
Letting go and hanging on
August 10, 2011 By 11 Comments
While journaling the past couple of mornings, the topic of fear kept popping up, and I realized I have written quite a bit about that topic, both lately and over the past couple of years. It’s not that I see myself as that quivering mass of jello in the back of the fridge, praying […]
