“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
Quotable // from Marcus Aurelius
Don’t Overthink It: Featured Book Review
For as long as I can remember, my mom has been telling me that I “think too much.” She’s not wrong. When it comes to mental aerobics, I’m an Olympics-caliber athlete with the ability to twist the simplest problem or idea into more knots than a Cirque du Soleil contortionist. At times, this proclivity for… Continue Reading
Quick Lit: February 2020 Reading Wrap Up // Part Two
Back today with round two of this month’s Quick Lit reviews. It’s an eclectic mix of thought-provoking nonfiction, love stories, and mystery. Let’s get right to the reviews! The Bromance Book Club, by Lysa Kay Adams: Major League baseball player Gavin Scott had thought he and Thea, his wife of three years, shared a happy… Continue Reading
Quick Lit: February 2020 Reading Wrap Up // Part One
I’m finally caught up on sharing book reviews, which means that this round-up is made up of books I read in the past month rather than organized by category. I am excited to share these reviews! The Red Tent, by Anita Diament: For years I’ve seen this book popping up on lists of top book… Continue Reading
Quotable // from Kay Warren
“As you change the way you think about God and who he is, your value system begins to shift and you adopt the ‘value system of heaven.’ . . . What does God value? God values character over comfort, faith over fear, mercy over judgment, justice over injustice, people over possessions, truth over falsehood, humility… Continue Reading
Old Love
On our first Valentine’s Day together, Luke and I had only been dating for a little over a month. Still in the lovey-dovey stage of early romance, we used the holiday as an excuse to fulfill every romantic cliché in the book. I baked Luke a batch of his favorite cookies and neatly stacked them… Continue Reading
Quick Lit: Reading Wrap-Up // Mysteries and Thrillers
Mysteries were my first literary love, the genre that made me a lifelong reader. I cut my reading teeth on the Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew, then graduated to Agatha Christie and beyond. While I read more broadly these days, I’ve never lost my love for a great mystery or thriller (although today’s batch of… Continue Reading
Quick Lit: Reading Wrap-Up // Love Stories
With Valentine’s Day coming up this week, it seemed like the perfect time to share some of the love stories I’ve read in the last couple of months. Romance isn’t generally a genre I’m quick to reach for, but most of these were read around Christmas time when I wanted to dig into a feel-good… Continue Reading
Quotable // from Henri Nouwen
“Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. As you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.” ~ Henri Nouwen Continue Reading
Links I Love {2.7.20}
Today’s posts are for the moms, the wives, the decision-fatigued, the impatient, the prayerful, and the puzzle-lovers among us. Enjoy! Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020), by Tim Ferriss “Looking back over the last decade, I have made many good fast decisions, but I… Continue Reading