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Super stoked y’all to share with you my recent interview with author, Jeff Goins. Jeff has a GREAT wildly popular blog on writing, ideas & making a difference. His last book was Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life …which, will wreck the mess outta you if you let it. And this next […]
Reading Audible’ing Netflixing, Amazon Instant Video’ing or Hulu +’ing -Frasier, Season 5 -Downton Abbey, Season 3 -Grey’s Anatomy, Season 9 -Scandal, Season 1- 3. Pretty much. YouTube’ing “Improvisational Parenting” by my new friend, Arnebya I met at Blogher ’13. She is so. so. funny. So. Instacasting Instacast is in my top 10 of all time favorite & […]
“Humans have never lived purely functional lives, even when life was most difficult, when our survival was most precarious. We are compelled to create. Humans mysteriously create things with no practical function or purpose other than to be beautiful.” This is one of many nuggets of truth that stuck out to me after finishing up […]
I’ve got a giveaway for you, giveaway winners & two book reviews just in time for “Mistmas” as Rhysie likes to call the wonderful Advent season upon us. The first is a wonderful book sent to me by Frank Robinson, Jr. called Letters to a Mixed Race Son. The book is just as it sounds: […]
I am reading -and loving- R. York Moore’s newest book, Making All Things New: God’s Dream For Global Justice. Because York is my current mentor, married to one of my very bestest friends, my former InterVarsity staff worker & the one who led me to Christ and discipled me, it seemed fitting to mention that outright. Also, […]
Man, I was pretty geeked to be given an early copy of Does This Church Make Me Look Fat: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right & Solves Her Lady Problems. Here’s why: I loved Rhoda Janzen’s previous book: Mennonite In a Little Black Dress. I listened to it first via Audible & because I […]
I’m a little more than half way through This Ordinary Adventure: Settling Down Without Settling by Adam & Christine Jeske. An excerpt from the book: “We want to be fully original and also fit squarely within a narrowly defined cool. We want our children to be brilliant and also never to care whether they are […]
So. I really liked You Have No Idea by Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen Williams. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that it arrived on a Monday at dinnertime and I finished it by 1am the following day! As a biography it was an easy and a fun read. As a memoir lover, I […]
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