Posted in Everyday, Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Lee LeFever over at Common Craft posted a new tutorial on Twitter that’s entertaining to watch. In fact, I posted the video here:
I’ve been blogging a lot less, lately, in an effort to focus more on my responsibilities at home. This has been good for my family life, but being a Stay […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Last night and this morning I saw rumblings on the Internet - on Twitter, to be exact. WhyMommy was receiving well wishes and prayers and good thoughts. This morning when I was awake before the crack of dawn, East Coast friend Mommy Needs a Cocktail IM’d me a link to WhyMommy’s blog (after IM’ing: I […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jan 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
If your family were to come on hard times, or were beset by a tragedy, or were somehow incapacitated, what would you do? How would function? How would you care for yourself or the others in your family?
I’m asking you, dear Internet, because you need people. You need call-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night friends. You need drop-your-kids-off-at-the-last-minute […]
Posted in Friendship, Learning, Living In Community, Video on Sep 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
When Ruthie was just two months old, Bryan and I coordinated a babysitting co-op with friends. Every other week we would go on a date and have free babysitting, and on the opposite weeks it would be our turn to babysit. Various families have been a part of this co-op in the past, but […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jul 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I couldn’t resist this article about the gunman who raided a D.C. area party, only to be thwarted by kindness when one of the party-goers extended hospitality to him. An incident that started with a man holding a gun to a 14-year-old girl’s head, ended with hugs and bewilderment for both parties involved:
After the […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jun 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
[edited to further clarify this a quality I strive for, not something I have already achieved.]
Thinking more on the theme of hospitality, I made a connection that it doesn’t necessarily have to be something you practice within your home. The more I think on it, the more I’m understanding hospitality to be a state […]
Posted in Grieving, Living In Community on Jun 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m feeling weepy this morning, with a lump in my throat that is ready to burst into emotion at the first sign of lowered defenses. Perhaps I am hormonal this week, but on this Monday morning - the first time I have slowed down enough to process since returning from Minnesota - there is […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jun 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
Our pastor is preaching through the book of Nehemiah, which is about the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Jews had survived many years of exile.
This week I was particularly struck by the celebration that took place after the wall was completed and the city was rebuilt. All the people gathered in the center square […]
Posted in Living In Community on Jun 5th, 2007 3 Comments »
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about hospitality. In fact, I’ve been thinking about it so much that my mind is going in fourteen different directions, so I’m not sure how this post will turn out.
When Bryan and I were courting (nice old fashioned word, eh?), one of the main things we discussed was […]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
On Monday evening (April 2) I will be participating in a round table discussion as a panelist with a group called The Kindlings. The topic is online community and whether it can be real and engaging to those involved. I’m very honored to be participating, and I hope it will help me flesh […]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 12th, 2007 8 Comments »
I’ve heard of other blogging groups getting together for meet-ups in the area, and thought it might be fun for the Friends of This Pile (heretofore called FoTP) to have a local Meet-Up as well! Are you interested? I’d love to meet you in person (those I don’t know already), and I think […]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Living In Community on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’re anything like me (read: narcissistic), The Truman Show was the movie that made you want to smoke a cigarette when it was over. I could have made millions had I capitalized on my vivid childhood imagination, for I had envisioned ‘reality tv’ long before it was even a whisper in the womb. […]
Posted in Living In Community, On Writing on Nov 14th, 2006 3 Comments »
This is what I love the most about living in a walkable community – being The Regular. I walk into the Coffee/Wine Bar near my house and Charlie the Customer greets me, asking me how the book is coming along. He says he admires me for my consistency in setting aside time to write.
The […]
Posted in Friendship, Fun Pile, Living In Community on Sep 27th, 2006 4 Comments »
I know I’ve talked about my birthday FAR too much than anybody should on the internet, but it’s been celebrated in bits and pieces with various people – much like Christmas was for me with divorced parents and heaps of extended family.
As I stated last year, I like to spend my birthday with The Girls, […]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Friendship, Living In Community on Aug 24th, 2006 8 Comments »
My friend, Jenny, and I both had commitments to watch someone else’s kids last night, so we decided to consolidate our tasks and hang out together in the process.
And, wow, what a night.
At one point we had seven toddlers under the age of four running around! I actually find this sort of […]