If I added up all of the hours I've spent driving to the Target/Costco/Home Depot Shopping Center, Malcolm Gladwell would ask to interview me. I've practiced the 10,000 hour rule plus some, and consider myself an expert in this field. There are a few ways to arrive at the center, but I always drive ... Read More about Crossing over to the other side
Five Minute Friday: Fight
Hello, Friends. Welcome back for another Friday spent with Lisa-Jo and the Five-minute crowd. Today, we're taking five minutes to write on the prompt Fight. Do you have five minutes to write, read, or both? Why don't you join us? 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no ... Read More about Five Minute Friday: Fight
When satisfied takes on a different meaning
I defrocked the house of all her Christmas cheer today. I spun twinkle lights around my hands and I thought of how the Brits call them fairy lights, as if they hold some sort of magic in the spark and flicker of the bulb. I wrapped the ornaments in filmy white paper, and I put them away to hibernate ... Read More about When satisfied takes on a different meaning
All that glitters
We're lingering in the post-holiday haze of sparkly lights and time spent with real people in the real world. I spent so little time online over Christmas, I almost forgot what it is I'm supposed to do. Tweet this, pin that, read, comment, write. I used my time well, gathering stories here and ... Read More about All that glitters
While shepherds watch their flocks by night
We visited Israel this year, and our guide, an Israeli Jew, was unable to take us across the Palestinian border to Bethlehem. "No Jews allowed," he said, and so he hooked us up with a Christian Palestinian guide on the other side. We sat at the Israeli border in our guide's white van, throwing ... Read More about While shepherds watch their flocks by night
The song in-between
Today, I'm joining Emily for the last of Tuesdays Unwrapped for the year. I love this exercise of looking at the small and ordinary parts of life with fresh eyes. ....................................... My mother-in-law once told me that she grew up "happy and content as a cow". She never looked ... Read More about The song in-between
