Pursuit of the Perfect Purse

For years I’ve been in search of the perfect purse–you know the one with the handy compartments, trendy look, suitable size without resembling a diaper bag or carry-on luggage.Last year I found an adorable Liz Claiborne barrel bag. Not too big, not too...

Shoutlife

On Tuesday, I joined Shoutlife–a Christian alternative to MySpace. It features a similar format as MySpace. Visit me.Within minutes of joining, I was flooded with friend requests and comments to my guestbook. I didn’t even know most of my new friends, but...

Strange Men & Sweet Nothings

Have you ever been embarrassed by something and it wasn’t even your fault?No? Well, I guess you must be the only person on the planet. :-)I started my morning on an ~ahem~ interesting note….Hubby has been out of town all week on business, but he and his...

Goodbye, old friend…

Our local bookstore is closing. I knew this sad event was taking place, but an e-mail from the bookstore’s national corporation in my inbox this morning simply made it more real. Ten days from today and the bookstore will be another empty storefront in a mall...

Use your words!

Yesterday, our son got off the bus, sporting a shiner in progress. My maternal instincts kicked into overdrive. How dare somebody mess with my baby! I wanted to scoop him up, cradle him to my chest and tell him everything was going to be all right. Then came the...

Directionally-Challenged!

The four ladies in my current work-in-progress end up lost, stop for directions, and manage to find themselves heading down this rutted, bumpy logging road. Definitely on the wrong track, the women end up in a desperate situation—one that I think many of us may have...