There have been a few crazy times in my life.College. I put myself through school so I always had to work. In junior college I worked 36 hours a week. I also lived in an apartment with other women from my church.At Ohio State, I worked 20 hours a week during school and two jobs in the summer.I carried a …
Table Talker: It Gets Better
She walked through the pool gate pushing a stroller loaded down with all the accountrements needed to host little ones for a day in the water. But it wasn’t just the heavy stroller weighing her down. She also had four little appendages– satellites to her orbit– in tow. I recognized the look of a frazzled mother of young children. I had …
Midlife State of Mind by Beth Webb Hart
Shellie Tomlinson’s books are an absolute hoot, and humor is good, good medicine for the soul. Especially as we enter the madness of midlife. This week’s conversation starter: “Has a time in your life ever driven you a little crazy?” hit me just where I live at the moment. I recently turned 41, and I have to say that life …
Dinnertime Conversation Starters Week 5 — Crazy Times
Happy Monday everyone! This week, we’re continuing with our series of Table Talk conversation cards. If you missed the previous cards and want to go back and print them out so you can use them at your family table, or with your book club, or at your next meeting or holiday party, you can get them here: — Conversation Card …
The Belles of SBV are Pinning!
Greetings from Houston, TX, home of the All Things Southern Baby Beau Czars. That would be my adorable grandsons who are napping as we speak, I mean, as we type. You should read that as time is limited and we must get it while the getting is good. I do hope y’all have enjoyed the conversations about connections. I …
Connections — Up High, Down Low
Recently a friend and I were discussing the societal theories of High Context vs. Low Context. High Context meaning hard to get in, hard to get out. Low being easy to get in, easy to get out.Here’s a bit more of a Wikipedia Definition:Typically a high context culture will be relational, collectivist, intuitive, and contemplative. They place a high value …
Table Talker: Rachel Hauck’s “The Wedding Dress” Question
This week we’re talking about Rachel Hauck’s book, The Wedding Dress, and how in the book a dress is a connection point for four women over time. How are our connections formed? Of course I’ve heard the debates about whether or not social media forms true connections, whether the internet is making us more connected or merely deceiving us into …
Eat, Pray, Play by Beth Webb Hart
Writers look for connections. Our antenna are always up, twisting this way and that, waiting to receive a message we believe is being transmitted. Hoping to decode it. I was driving my son to preschool today when I noticed the same woman I’ve observed for the last several years who happens to be stepping down from a city bus and …
Dinnertime Conversation Starters Week 4 – Connected In So Many Ways (from Lisa Wingate)
Happy Monday everyone! This week, we’re continuing with our series of Table Talk conversation cards. If you missed the previous cards and want to go back and print them out so you can use them at your family table, or with your book club, or at your next meeting or holiday party, you can get them here: — Conversation Card …
Opportunities and Guest Books– One and the Same?
Marybeth Whalen could just be single-handedly boosting the paper industry with the growing popularity of her latest novel, The Guest Book. At the heart of this engaging story is a guest book that may hold the key to a love the protagonist thinks she’s been looking for her whole life. Then again, the aged and yellowing book may lead …