Everything started here
I started writing on a blog called 29 Lincoln Avenue sixteen years ago. The name for my first blog came from the street address of the home I grew up in a small town in Southern Indiana. I loved the idea of inviting you into my “blog home” every week.
It was through learning to write and create content there (and then here) that I discovered my love for words and my voice as a writer. When I started, Twitter and Facebook were the rage and blogging found a unique place that would be writers (like me) were able to practice publishing more than a handful of words at at time.
Through blogging I started writing books. I am eternally grateful for that opportunity to put something more of my heart in the hands of those who are bookish by nature.
But even with Instagram, youTube, and every other social media option out there—I still love to add a few words here.
And I suspect I always will.
Grace For The Good Girl {Part 1}
I love John ... I hate John - Emma Woodhouse by Jane Austen I love this book. I hate this book. Let me clarify. I love this book because it will not let me alone for 10 minutes with my own version of the Good Girl. I love that Emily's words are shining the light of...
So I'm Hosting a Little (in)RL Meet-Up! Wanna Join Me?
I am way excited about hosting a local meet-up with (in)Courage next Spring! How much fun will it be to move beyond the screen into real life? If you are a local I hope you will mark your calendar for April 28, 2012. Or, take a look at the other meet-ups happening...
How Grace Found Me :: {Part 2}
How Grace Found Me :: {Part 1} You don't always get to pick where Grace will lead you. I found myself transplanted in a foreign land, surrounded by people I did not know, far away from my Good Girl life plan with only this promise to cling to: Do not call to mind the...
How Grace Found Me :: {Part 1}
When Emily called all the Good Girls together to preview her new book, I was thrilled. I imagined myself, book in hand, making happy little highlights and sending her my best one line quotes. Good girls do just what they are asked to do. My plan was to blitz through...
What I Wore Wednesday
Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a great week! Guess what? Only 2 more days and it will be Friday! Yeah for holiday weekends that mean "short" weeks! Here are few things I wore recently! Left :: Inspired by other WIWW girls, I added a belt to a black ruffle...
Grace for the Good Girl
Are you a Good Girl? Well, you might be if you: Use the word should, like a lot. Identify with the dinosaur in Toys Story and guilt drives you. You are always, fine. You have a hard time asking for help. No one really knows the conversation going on in your head. Fear...
Multitude Monday
Let me rediscover You And breathe in me Your life anew Tell me of the God I never knew Let me rediscover You Rediscover You, by Down Here Counting 1,000 Gifts.... #1000 The journey Yesterday, I sat and watched as my girls played red light green light in a field and my...
Hope on Saturday
Last week, I wrote a post about being Fresh Out of Amazing. Your response was so encouraging and yet it seems like many of us are in the same boat. We all need a lifeline of hope tossed to us at some point. And what I love about you and this place, is that God...
Camera Phone Friday
Left to right: Top row: (1.) Grace for the Good Girl (on my nightstand), (2.) Bible with the girls "Who am I?", (3.) Love my school year prayer! ( free via Mama Hall). Bottom row: (1.) Math game cutie (She beat me!), (2) "Something Happens" when I sing about...
What I Wore Wednesday
My husband went Word Camp last week and all I got was this..... really cool t-shirt! {You might be a blogger if you understand my affection for my new t-shirt} Here are a couple of other things (and another shot of that awesome t-shirt) that I wore recently! Left ::...