Last week, I posted a review of Grace for the Good Girl by Emily P. Freeman. Emily blogs at Chatting at the Sky and she issued an invitation to join her in blogging for 31 days straight on the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Mindful Mondays ~ Sweet Surrender
Image by TheCulinaryGeek via Flickr
Most mornings I need a jolt (or two or three) of caffeine to keep me on my feet.
So the other day, I fixed myself a cup of coffee, poured in a generous portion of...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Thoughtful Thursdays ~ Book Review: Grace for the Good Girl~letting go of the try-hard life by Emily P. Freeman

I would have made an awesome Pharisee.
Except for the fact that I'm not Jewish. And I'm a girl.
But still . . .
I love rules. I love following the rules.
I'm such a "good girl." My list of "nevers"...
Monday, September 19, 2011
My Hardwood Heart
I hate carpet for one reason.
You can't clean it.
You can get most of the spots out. But they'll come back.
Because they weren't ever really gone.
And that's why I love the hardwood floors in my...
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Thoughtful Thursdays ~ Book Review: The Queen by Steven James

I had never heard of Steven James before attending the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in 2010. I actually ate breakfast with him on my first morning there and came away with two observations....
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Thoughtful Thursdays ~ Hit Send
When I left the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in May of 2010 I overflowed with writerly confidence.
My manuscript had received a positive critique. The words "you're almost ready"...
Monday, September 5, 2011
Mindful Mondays ~ Labor Days
Deuteronomy 33:25 ~ Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be. (ESV)
Right now, I don't feel like my bars are iron or bronze.
I feel like a half-way decent...
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thoughtful Thursdays ~ Christian Writers Guild Courses

I will forever be thankful for the four months I spent taking Fiction that Sells through the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild.
I'm talking about that today over at The Write Conversation. Please...