On Monday I blogged about the words to the song Who Am I by Casting Crowns. The words "I am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow" have been running through my mind a lot this week.Yesterday we received the call that the family member battling cancer...
I'm a bi-monthly contributor for PG Magazine, a regional parenting/family magazine. I wrote Once Upon a Time: The Importance of Bedtime Stories for the April issue. Read the article here:Once Upon a Time: The Importance of Bedtime StoriesDo you read to your children...
Yesterday challenged my emotions. Before church, I received a phone call with some surprising news that gave me a second's worth of panic and forced me to cling to God's promises that He never leaves us nor forsakes us. As Sunday school ended, Hubby called my...
ABOUT THE BOOK:The year is 1945. The war is over and 21-year-old Betty Lake has been invited to Europe to sing in a USO tour for American soldiers who now occupy Hitler's Germany. The first nights performance is a hit. Betty becomes enthralled with the applause, the...
Today is the last day I will spend as a forty-year-old. Yes, tomorrow I turn 41. I embraced turning forty and celebrated with family and friends. Turning 35 was so much harder for me. As I remembered the events of the past year, I became overwhelmed by the incredible...
On Friday, I blogged about my modern day princess and the pea issues. Last night, I moved my bed back to its original position. When I removed the mattress, I was relieved to see no pea nesting on the box springs. After sliding off the mattress and box springs, I...
When I was younger, I remember reading the story of the Princess and the Pea. Maybe I'm a princess at heart, but I don't sleep well.I don't like my bed.There. I said it. The truth is out.Our mattress is only a couple of years old. I LOVED it...at first. So comfy. The...
Debut author Leeana Tankersley constructs a literary collage of memories and mementoes from living in the Middle East during the Iraq War in her travel memoir, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places (Nov. 2009). She reflects on discovering beauty in a foreign...
The other day I helped a child write the letter of his first name. I cupped my hand over his and demonstrated how to make a straight line, beginning at the top and going to the bottom, and then adding two bumps. That may not be the technical explanation for a letter...
Sons of ThunderbySusan May WarrenLisa's Thoughts:I received Sons as Thunder free from the publisher in exchange for this book review, but even if I hadn't, I would've bought the book as soon as it hit the shelves. I've been a Susan May Warren fan since I found her...
