Lately || April 2024

I don’t mean to sound like a cliché (although Luke always tells me not to be afraid of them because a cliché is a cliché for a reason!), but April positively flew ...

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Routines That Work Are Working for Me

I’m such a huge fan of routines—my own, and those of others. So when Kendra Adachi shared a few of her tried-and-true routines on a recent episode of The Lazy Genius, I ...

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Quotable || Invest & Understand

“We gain an understanding of where we need to be in the future by investing in our current situation.” ~ Curtis Zackery ...

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Best of the Backlist: Books That Care for Your Soul

Reading in its multitudinous forms and genres can be an excellent form of soul care. The act of slowing down and letting words pour over me brings a certain calming to my ...

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The Strength of My Heart (April Verse—Psalm 73:23-26)

I cried myself to sleep last night. They weren’t tears over some tragedy, loss, or heartbreak; it wasn’t anything nearly that dramatic. They were simply tears of exhaustion and overwhelm; of frustration ...

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Quotable || Seasoned

“We so often want the benefit of a seasoned life without the seasoning.” ~ Lisa Whittle ...

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Bookish Considerations: Are you a rereader?

A few years ago, as I was sitting around a dinner table discussing hobbies with with a group of newish friends, my love of reading inevitably entered into the conversation. After I’d ...

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Totality

Before I saw it featured on the cover of our local newspaper, I had no idea that a solar eclipse would be taking place on April 8th. And it wasn’t until I ...

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Quotable || The Pearl

“All pain’s a prelude: to symphony, to sweetness. The pearl began as a pain in the oyster’s stomach.” ~ Eugene H. Peterson ...

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28 Things That Are Totally Overrated

Warning: unpopular opinions ahead! Specifically, my own contrarian takes on some things others seem to LOVE that (in my humble opinion) are entirely overrated. We have a rule in our family that ...

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