Posted in Books on Dec 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
I showered, I did some laundry, I made an actual dinner, I picked up the house. Suddenly the world doesn’t seem so dark, and now I’m wondering if I’m just being hormonal. Or maybe this is what peace that passes understanding feels like. Who knows? I don’t want to think about it for too [...]
Posted in Books, Seen, Heard, Said on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Here’s a fun site called Booking Through Thursday. A question is asked, and you answer it on your website with links all around. I like this idea for those times when I’m feeling blocked and burned out, but I still want to write for the discipline of it.
Thanks to Writing and Living for [...]
Posted in Books on Dec 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
This Beautiful Mess, by Rick McKinley, made me uncomfortable. I feel pretty comfortable in my nice house with my nice husband who has a nice job and provides me with lots of nice things. McKinley’s book challenged me to consider my life’s agenda and priorities. As I read, I wondered if I cling [...]
Posted in Books, Seen, Heard, Said on Oct 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
I just read this post on Jeffrey Overstreet’s blog about “Christian Fiction” and the faith of J.K. Rowling and Sara Zarr. It’s a great little rant about Christians who oppose Harry Potter because magic is of the devil.
But also in the post is an excerpt of an interview with Sara Zarr, author of Story [...]
Posted in Books on Sep 22nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Posted in Books, Seen, Heard, Said on Aug 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sometimes I even feel equivocal about claiming the evangelical label. For, theologically, I am right in line with the evangelical mainstream, but what people want to know when they ask me whether or not I’m an evangelical is rarely theology. What they want to know is whether I vote for Pat Robertson, listen to Amy [...]
Posted in Books on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Because I spent an entire day in bed this weekend, due to the bottom half of my body becoming separated from my top half, I read an entire book. It was probably too much information to really let sink in all at once - especially since I had just attended an all day seminar on [...]
Posted in Books on Jul 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in Books on May 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m back in the saddle again with another book club. After two previous book clubs I was part of, including one through my previous church and one through my friend, Maryam, I have been recruited. A good friend asked me to participate with a small group of six women who would each take [...]
Posted in Books on Apr 14th, 2007 No Comments »
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After taking the ‘test’ in chapter three to rate Ruthie in the spectrum of nine different personality traits, it came out just as I had suspected: she’s spirited.
But just barely, as it turns out. She’s at the low end of the Spirited range.
Her intensity is not [...]
Posted in Books on Apr 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
It’s about time I did some catching up around here - I finished this book simply AGES ago and haven’t even mentioned it. But it’s an older book anyway, so I didn’t think anyone was waiting on pins and needles for my opinion. Not that anyone would be waiting on pins and needles for my [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Books, Learning on Mar 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Last night Bryan and I went to see Annie Lamott read from her new book, Grace (Eventually), which she nearly titled Forgivishness.
I was first introduced to Annie’s writing when I became pregnant with Ruthie and my sister-in-law gave me her copy of Operating Instructions. I think I read that book in one [...]
Posted in Books on Mar 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Most of us find ourselves facing an array of labels spoken and unspoken that affect how we think, feel, and act toward our spirited children. If we are going to build a healthy relationship with them, we must lay the labels out on the table, dissect them, and then redesign those that make us and [...]
Posted in Books on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m excited that so many people are on board for discussing this latest book I’m reading: Raising Your Spirited Child. I always get more out of books like this when I can be inspired by the things others are seeing that don’t jump out at me, so thank you for your willingness to come [...]
Posted in Books on Mar 20th, 2007 6 Comments »
Spirited kids are the Super Ball in a room full of rubber balls. Other kids bounce three feet off the ground. Every bounce for a spirited child hits the ceiling.
I started this book today. The subtitle is ‘a guide for parents whose child is *more* intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and energetic.’ Sounded like the [...]