It would feel weird to tell my 2019 self the following: I completed all the things on my "ideas of things to do while trapped in the...

An interesting phenomenon happens when you‘re waiting: You have time on your hands. Your mind feels a bit scattered, you're fidgety and...

Typically, I read non-fiction in winter, which means I have a great batch of recommendations for you today. I read seven books so far...

I have an hour of free time between errands. I head toward my favorite stop: the bookstore. I drift between genres, picking up books...

I used to get books for Christmas. I don't anymore. Mainly because my husband says, How am I supposed to know what book to get you?? And...

Thanksgiving is hard. There, I said it. I'm hosting. My family is (mostly) a delight. We pretty much agree politically AND religiously. I...

My new friend and I are laughing so hard we are wiping away tears. I can barely catch my breath. I sit in a chair close to her at the end...

My attention span has been shorter than normal and my time allowed for reading has been practially nil, friends. So this list is short...

I stand in the kitchen on a rainy October day eating blueberry coffee cake. My mom has been diagnosed with cancer. Life throws us this...

This is a story I tell my friends. It's a silly story about a time I made a decision to be myself. Not a huge, courageous story. Just a...

I was taking notes studiously in the workshop I attended until she stopped me with a question: "Ask yourself: Where is that written?" I...

My best friend is really pretty with the most beautiful hair I've ever known. When we shop together, people stop her and ask how she gets...

I went to the eye doctor today. I wear contacts and glasses and needed to update the prescription, as I've been feeling my right eye...

The definition of spirituality is a tricky thing. So I've included the above picture in order to help you. Because, of course, this is...

Wanna win some of my books? There's a giveaway at the end of this post! Keep reading! It's just too hot to hold on to a coherent thought...

I always try to have a good mix of genres while reading, and some of my favorites are true stories. I've always felt reading memoirs and...

I caught my daughter's eye as the wrong words popped up on the screen during the worship song. The congregation stumbled as we tried to...

It comes out of nowhere. The light turns green, I start to go, and there is a pickup coming at me out of the corner of my eye. He's blown...

Book Review: Short attention span reviews of the last two months of reading! I have had the attention span of a gnat lately, so the list...

“I’m fairly local. I’ve been around. / I’ve seen the streets you’re walking down.” -Twenty One Pilots There's a new grocery store that's...