Mother’s Day at Crystal Bridges

Before I became a mother I had absolutely no idea how important Mother’s Day is. I don’t say that proudly. Thoughtfulness is not something that comes naturally to me, and this year I’ve worked hard to improve in this area.

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NBC Nightly News Features Listen to Your Mother Show

The Listen to Your Mother show is a national series of shows where local women tell their funny, inspirational, heart-warming, ridiculous and real stories of motherhood in front of a live audience.

For the second year in a row Lela … Read More

Facebook Etiquette: Not on my timeline

Pardon me while I get on my Facebook etiquette soapbox for a minute.

I don’t know if you’ve had this happen, but recently an acquaintance, ACQAINTANCE, from high school, which for me was 20 years ago, posted a sales pitch … Read More

[Local] Feed Fayetteville

A couple years ago my friend Laura was speaking to our MOPs group about the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (which, by the way, is the benefiting organization for this year’s Listen to Your Mother Northwest Arkansas show) when … Read More

Search for church

The Word is just one begger telling another begger where the bread is. – Charles Wiggins, guest pastor and missionary in Tanzania, Africa

We tweet and Facebook about our favorite restaurants.

“The bread here is fantastic! You have to come.”

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Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 3 {Blissdom 2013}

Don’t worry if Exercise 3 is the first you’re seeing this “Writing with Bianca Olthoff” series. Links the the first two are at the bottom of this post. 

Writing Exercise Three: Write a short short story (minimum of one sentence, … Read More

Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 2 {Blissdom 2013}

What? You missed yesterday’s post about the fabulous Bianca Olthoff? That’s okay. Go here: Bianca Olthoff Blissdom Writing Exercise 1

Exercise Two: Identify on a timeline five high points in life and five low points.

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Delight in Christ {One Little Word}

At the beginning of this year I selected one little word (aka OLW) that I would carry with me throughout 2013. It took a while to come up with the word, but as soon as it crossed my mind I … Read More

Easter delight

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More sponge rollers please | #tbt

I have one whole image on my computer that can be used for #tbt, aka Throwback Thursday. And it’s a doozy. Check out those bouncy, fresh-off-the-sponge-roller curls c. 1984-ish.

Can we talk about the glasses? Those were square-frame. So edgy. So … Read More