Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: NEAR “Keep at least three feet away from her.” The above sentence […]
#GivingTuesday 2017
Twas the night before Giving Tuesday 2017 and I was ….. facing down a deadline wishing I had instituted an email newsletter so I could shoot one out instead of inflicting a blog post on people BUT since there’s no newsletter option and the deadline is breathing down my neck, a blog post will have […]
Helping a Child “Become Someone” Through Florida Prepaid
This post is sponsored by the Florida Prepaid College Board, through my role as a Believer Blogger. All thoughts are my own. My dear friend Jane Anderson wrote a Thanksgiving reflection this year that made me think. Among other observations, she talked about a year when her family decided “to try eating out for Thanksgiving […]
Grateful Challenge 2017
There are 37 days left in 2017 (how is that?) and it’s time for the annual grateful challenge. (Gini Dietrich says so here.) I did the Grateful Challenge the standard way (list everything you’re grateful for in 10 minutes, with a goal of getting to 99) twice. I reached 33 in 2014, and 99 in 2015 […]
#HousefulOfCookies: Ready for you, Santa!
I miss baking, which I used to do much more frequently. Thanks to Natasha and #HousefulOfCookies, I’m back in the baking business, at least for one batch of Soft and Chewy M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’m sharing a recipe from Averie Cooks, and hope you’ll join ALL the bloggers in the hop. You’ll be well-prepared […]
Five Minute Friday: FAMILIAR
Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: FAMILIAR Today’s Turkey Trot was all too familiar. It took me one […]