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I Need Your Help as I go through Withdrawl

As I keep mentioning (because let's fact it, I'm still pretty bitter,) we have gone from being the techie-st house on the block to the 1970's.

Remember when, back in the 70's when you only had four channels coming into your house. We're back to that.

I don't think you realize what I'm saying here.

No Project Runway.

No White Collar.

No Mythbuster.

No nuttin.

I would love to say that I'm using the extra time for memorizing Greek translations of the Old Testament, or going to Pilate's.

But I need some ...

Thursday Rant – What is Wrong with Calling it a Tank Top?

I think words are really, really powerful.

(If I didn't, I should probably get a different type of work, no?)

I constantly remind my kids of this fact when they use words in a careless way.

So when I started to hear my classic tank top being referred to as a "Wife Beater", I started to boil.  But here it wasn't my kids who were calling it that – it was fashion designers.

When I started to see the term show up on store websites and in fashion spreads in my favorite magazines, I couldn't believe i...

It's All Good – 3 Things I'm Grateful for this Week

Doc Martin

We have cut back on everything around here. No more cable, no more Tivo, no more ways to distract the brain while folding mountains of towels and underwear.

The one thing we have kept is a very basic subscription to Netflix. I love getting a DVD in the mail, but my favorite part is all the old TV shows you can watch instantly.

Oh the Joy.

I love this BBC series Doc Martin is OK for my entire family, funny when I can understand what their saying, and a better version of the American...

A Real Live Writer's Conference

I

get questions every single week from y'all about how to be a writer. My very first piece of advice is : Go to a writers conference. (I know that my very first piece of advice should be "Pray about it," but after so many potential authors telling me, "God told me to write a book," I've decided to skip that step.)

So here is one of my favorite conferneces, and bonus – I'm teaching at it, so you know we'll have a good time.

Here is the official announcment (to make it official…):

CLASSEMINARS,...

The Fruits of Our Labor and the best Bruchetta Recipe Ever

Here is why I love summer:

This -

becomes this-

if you do this:

(The world's easiest, best tasting bruchetta recipe.)

Bruschetta

1 loaf Italian bread, cut into 1/2-inch slices

Add together your basil, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and pepper. Stir together to...

The Prayer I've Never Ever Prayed Before

I hate waiting so much.

I hate it.  I hate it.  I hate it.

And I'm waiting a lot right now.

I'm waiting to hear back on a lot of projects, a lot of queries and a lot of programs.

I'm waiting to hear back from editors and publishers and event planners and teachers and a whole host of other people.

And I hate it.

I swore I would never pray for patience, (I've seen what happens when friends pray for patience – I don't want none of that.)

But here's the thing – when you start refreshing your incoming...

In My Book Bag: My Five Favoirte Foodie Memoirs

I'm in the middle of writing a food book and am loving reading about other food adventures. Here are my top five foodie books. Nothing better in the summer than reading about other people cooking – except eating other people's cooking.

1. Animal Vegetable Miracle – A Year of Food Live by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is one of the most well-respected fiction writers in the US. (Being a writer I'm suppose to swoon at her books but after reading The Poisonwood Bible, I decided I like my f...

It's All Good

I never realized how often I said this particular phrase until after I had taught at a weekend retreat.

Everything that could have gone wrong, did.

There was infighting in the group, the facility was overrun with spiders, and the woman who was suppose to assist me with one of the worship exercises decided she knew how to do it better than I did and created an entirely new session. (Without bothering to inform me.)

When I got back the evaluation forms from the committee, one of the questions...

In My Book Bag – Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

It must seem like the only thing I am doing this summer is reading books (and come to think of it, that wouldn't be such a bad way to spend a summer…) We have had two family emergencies and a business trip in the past three weeks bringing us to seven different states. Blogging has had to take a back seat to life.

However, with long car/plane trips, I have had plenty of opportunities to read, so here is this week's recommended reading:

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is the memoir of a woman w...

In My Book Bag – Orange is the New Black

Book Recommendation – Orange is the New Black

It may seem a little weird that I'm recommending a book about a women doing a year in jail for a 10 year-old drug charge.

But I have to tell you – this is a very compelling, can't-put-it-down read.

Here is the books description from Booklist:

Just graduated from Smith College, Kerman made the mistake of getting involved with the wrong woman and agreeing to deliver a large cash payment for an international drug ring. Years later, the consequences...