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Why We Need People

Feb 8, 2018

Introversion is my default. Yet, I have this need for people — which isn’t altogether surprising. It’s how God designed us: we need people. My favorite places to feel connected to humanity are: corporate worship (please come to church with…

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Braving the wilderness, Brene Brown, community, good books, goodreads, humans

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My Audacious 2018 Reading List

Jan 29, 2018

Last year, I read 53 books according to Goodreads. That’s 53 books that I let the world know about. I actually read more, but those unmentioned ones were largely vacation reads with little to no redeeming value. I didn’t intentionally…

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2018, book club, goodreads, podcast, reading list

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Does Summer Have to End?

Jul 31, 2017

I was almost tricked into believing summer was over. Does Summer have to end? Because I don’t want it to. Ever. Saturday morning was listed on the calendar as the last day of the summer reading program in our city.…

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An Author Doesn’t Have to be Dead to Read Their Book

Jul 19, 2017

Books are like candy to me. I’d probably eat them if that was actually good for my digestion. And they would be mandatory supplements for my children at each meal. Oh wait, I do read to them at meals. Books…

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books, compassion child, literature, mom tip

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The Hardest Homeschooling Year

Nov 21, 2016

Do you ever have good intentions and broadcast them as unrealistic as they may be to the world — or rather your Facebook wall? Then you find that you end up eating crow? The objective was to journal our Classical Conversations Challenge…

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