From the monthly archives: August 2010

Consolidating

By annkroeker On August 31, 2010 · 9 Comments

Slowing down is easier when we simplify.

One way to simplify is to consolidate.

Several of you have noticed that I recently switched my personal/author website from free WordPress to a self-hosted blog.

One reason I did this was to consolidate two sites into one—copying the Not So Fast material over here to [...]

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Food on Fridays: Tomatoes and Cheese (lots of cheese)

By annkroeker On August 26, 2010 · 13 Comments


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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you want to talk about canning peaches, that’s great. Posts like that are as welcome [...]

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The Speed of a Good Samaritan

By annkroeker On August 26, 2010 · 6 Comments

In Not So Fast, I wrote a chapter about slowing down enough to care, wondering if we’re going so fast that we struggle to show compassion, speeding right past people in need.

In it, I reflected on a famous study done in the 1970s in which seminary students who volunteered to [...]

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Slowing Down, Speaking Less

By annkroeker On August 24, 2010 · 7 Comments

At Jesus Community, Ted M. Gossard has been writing about slowing down.

In his post “the goal of slowing down (in my case),” Ted said that his life has been full of words, that they spill out of him easily…sometimes too easily. He wrote:

Lately valuing silence more [...]

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Too Familiar?

By annkroeker On August 23, 2010 · 21 Comments

We’ve been hosting two people from Belgium—a mom and daughter—who are friends of the Belgian Wonder’s family. The daughter needed all the “stuff” for her first year of college in America, so we were driving them to “stuff” stores like Target, Wal-Mart and Kohl’s.

But both she and her mom needed [...]

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Food on Fridays: Homemade Ice Cream Help

By annkroeker On August 19, 2010 · 22 Comments


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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you want to talk about the shriveled, forgotten cucumber plucked from your garden, that’s [...]

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Knee Prints

By annkroeker On August 17, 2010 · 8 Comments

There’s a lady at our church who has a voice as soft and soothing as flannel. She prays so regularly, she seems radiant from God’s glory. In fact, I feel from her an almost palpable peace flowing from the Holy Spirit with whom she interacts so faithfully and intimately.

Just being [...]

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Food on Fridays: Organic Evening

By annkroeker On August 12, 2010 · 22 Comments


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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you want to talk about the hunk of organic eggplant that lodged between [...]

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Missing Rich

By annkroeker On August 11, 2010 · 12 Comments

My son just discovered the music of fellow Hoosier Rich Mullins.

We have a tribute CD that includes “Awesome God,” “Hold Me, Jesus,” and “Elijah,” among others, and my son has been playing it nonstop. In fact, the first thing he [...]

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What's the Word?

By annkroeker On August 7, 2010 · 23 Comments

While sorting books, I came across Debra Bell‘s The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling.

The following section, taken from page 23, fascinates me:

Care to hazard a guess as to the sources of each of these vocabulary lists?

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aggression divergent prestigious bizarre cogent propagate ambiguous exonerated

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