postaday2011
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if it keeps you up, it’s got to go
Note: I wrote this in 2009 and I’m proud to say I’ve been clean 2 years and counting. For weeks now, I’ve had a suspicion that I am an addict. To confirm this suspicion, I went googling and learnt that some signs of addiction are: using the stuff to forget problems or to relax; keeping it… Read more
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farewells come too quickly
Journal entry from several years ago: The message read: “Attention—Betty is retiring. Farewell lunch next week.” I’ve known Betty for five years. She works two cubicles and a corridor from me. If there were a prize for motivation, Betty would win the gold. Velcro’ed on her cubicle wall is a saying every day. Today it’s… Read more
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truefaced by thrall, mcnicol & lynch (navpress)
The book is for those of us struggling to be ourselves and see ourselves in God’s plans. The Shakespearean quote on the cover sums it up well: God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. Using the metaphor of a mask, the book deals with the dangers of being untrue to ourselves… Read more
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adventist alert
Just had to repost this. Hilarious–but not so much, if you are Adventist and haven’t yet learned to laugh at yourself. Read more
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bad girls of the bible (waterbrook)
I must be the atypical woman. The back cover tells me that ten million readers already love Liz Curtis Higgs’s writing, yet I don’t. The very things that others seems to like about her style is what I don’t–her “blend of contemporary fiction with biblical commentary” and her “unique brand of ‘girlfriend theology’.” I did… Read more
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finding our way again by brian mclaren (thomas nelson)
My Aunty Pauline and my Uncle Solomon are two very different people who have very little in common. They are so different, I can’t imagine them hanging out if Pauline weren’t married to Solomon’s brother. But there is one thing they have shared in common for as long as I can remember–their practice of fasting.… Read more
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five creative ways to blog every day (and keep a resolution)
One consistent element every year of my life has been my failure to keep a New Year’s resolution. So I was determined–2011 was going to be different. I was going to pick a realistic, simple resolution. And keep it. WordPress’s Post-A-Day and Post-A-Week challenges seemed a perfect fit since I love to write. Only thing,… Read more
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every woman’s dream
I found this old journal entry today. It says a lot about how I’ve managed to stay married for so long. What girl has not dreamt of one day meeting the perfect man, the one especially created for you, the husband with whom you will live happily ever after. I was no different from any… Read more
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the snickerdoodle dilemma
I have a sweet tooth. Actually I have a whole set of sweet teeth. I had just had a heavy lunch, topped off three large pieces of European chocolate. Armed with more than the recommended daily sugar intake, I was set for the second half of the workday. But that was until I stopped at… Read more
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faith in a box?
In the first 10 minutes, it was quite obvious he had thoroughly googled me—Not in the creepy, stalker kind of way; but more like in a I-better-know-whom-I-might-be-working-with, smart sort of way. So when he said Tell me about yourself, it was just as obvious that he wasn’t talking about my work experience, my portfolio, my… Read more
SAYS FYL 