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February 29, 2012 11 Comments

Curiosity Journal: February 29, 2012

Each Wednesday I’ve been recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the previous week using these tag words: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing.:::ReadingStill reading The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction. It's a short book. Seriously, it's so short I should already be finished, but I only have time to nibble a few pages at a time. It's okay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Curiosity Journal, family, TheHighCalling.org

May 26, 2011 8 Comments

Validation

We all need to know that we matter...that our work matters...that our contribution to this world, whether big or small, is meaningful in some way.I'm an editor for The High Calling, an organization that understands this. We believe that you, your work, your relationship with God, your contribution to this world—it all matters. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: TheHighCalling.org, writing

May 10, 2011 21 Comments

Enchanté

One of the first things I learned in French was how to introduce and greet people.If I were introduced to an older woman, I could respond with, "Je suis très heureuse de faire votre connaissance" ("I'm very happy to make your acquaintance"). It's quite a mouthful. I memorized and used it once in Belgium when my sister-in-law introduced me to a person about my own age. They … [Read more...]

Filed Under: reading, TheHighCalling.org Tagged With: book club, Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki, The High Calling, TheHighCalling.org, virtual book club

April 20, 2011 3 Comments

The Empty Egg

On Easter morning one year, we arranged for our son to open the last plastic egg, but he refused.Several years ago, we bought a pack of twelve plastic "Resurrection Eggs” filled with various symbols representing key moments in the Easter story. We worried the eggs could be a little cheesy, but our kids delighted in taking turns plucking one from the carton and shaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, TheHighCalling.org Tagged With: Easter, Easter eggs

April 13, 2011 9 Comments

Crossing Cultures

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article at TheHighCalling.org about discovering I was a foreigner.This week, we decided to launch a community writing project inviting others to tell their own stories of crossing cultures.  I wrote the introductory post, which begins:My parents tell me I was about four years old, dancing down the sidewalk, on the lookout for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: TheHighCalling.org, writing

March 24, 2011 7 Comments

There & Back Again: Time to Get our Fingers Dirty

The garden is mostly my thing. I plan it out, sketch ideas, buy the seeds or seedlings, and direct the entire process.My husband tills while the kids trudge out and help rake, plant and water...some of them grumble and mutter the whole time, aggravated to be working when they could be playing. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: TheHighCalling.org, writing Tagged With: There & Back Again

January 17, 2011 22 Comments

The Spirit of Food: Food Heritage and The Occasional Vegetarian

Food HeritageLast week’s TheHighCalling.org book club selection of essays (from The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God) included Denise Frame Harlan’s essay “And She Took Flour.”As I followed her story of learning to eat (and eventually cook) real food, I sat almost as stunned as she did when a professor read excerpts from The Supper of the Lamb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books, Food, reading, TheHighCalling.org, writers, writing

December 31, 2010 13 Comments

Food on Fridays: The Spirit of Food (THC Book Club Discussion-Week One)

(smaller button below)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, you could simply describe Christmas leftovers and New Year's Eve snack plans OR join the book club at TheHighCalling.org; because, you see, we’re pretty relaxed over here. Posts like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books, Food on Fridays, high calling blogs, Not So Fast, reading, Slow Movement, TheHighCalling.org, writing

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