I keep thinking of conference things, but now that I want to write them down, I forget. Ok, here’s one. Karen Ball was speaking and she asked, “Are you all called to write?”We answered a muddy, “Yes.”So, she asks again, loud! “Are you called to write?”“Yes!” We shout a little louder.And then a third time. “Are you called to write?”“Yes!” …

I took Brandilyn Collin’s “Kicking It Up A Knotch” workshop. She did a great job and I learned a new thing about backstory. “Don’t do it!” Bonded with Sydney Zech, our fab conference coordinator. She surprised me with a massage on Sunday evening. Allison Wilson was everything I promised Sydney she’d be! Thank you, Allison.I met Heather Diane Tipton in …

Diann Hunt, Kristin Billerbeck, Me, Colleen CobleThe 4th anual ACFW conference has come and gone. I’m exhausted. I flew to Nashville Sunday the 11th and hit the ground running and did not stop until yesterday afternoon when Sydney walked me down to the hotel’s massage room in the hotel and said, “Enjoy!” There is so much to blog, I cannot …

After step-weight training class last night I went to Zion to worship with Kent Henry. I sang with him a few years ago, and should’ve last night, but I was in simplify mode. Ha! He is an incredible worship leader and of course the Fire Dweller Band was backing him up and. . . ahhhh! I walked into the sanctuary …

Frustrations can be good. They can spur us onto bigger and better things. Thus, I’m frustrated. Well, I feel frustrated. Therefore, I must be. Ha!Do you know there is a personality type that actually makes decisions by feelings? They read their feelings as fact and then decide. I learned about this when taking the Myers-Briggs personality test several years ago …

Some days I fear I am watching the decline of a great nation. Did the Romans recognize the crumbling foundation of their great country? Did they know the world they conquered would soon conquer them?Jesus tells us in Luke 12: 56 to discern the times. I’d be remiss if I did not peer into the crucial hour in which we …

College football premier day! Yay! We watched Ohio State until they switched over to Oklahoma and TCU. We were winning so they took us off. To which I say, “Rotten, son of a, sassin’ frassin’ …” Get this. I’m watching the game and think, “Oh, I’ll go put on my authentic, fake OSU football jersey.” Joel got one for me …

It’s thundering and raining. Mom and Grandma just arrived and are napping. I wanted to nap, too, but got to doing email and blogging.I first blogged about Katrina, but decided to delete it. My heart is so grieved over the devastation, but more over the news reporting, the politicking, the accusing and the lawlessness. New Orleans is supposed to be …

My heart is grieved over the devastation in New Orleans. It breaks for the people who are trapped and starving, for those who have died. But I’m more grieved that this natural disaster is being used for political posturing and accusation. That political hacks are suggesting racism and prejudice. Have we really become a a nation that demands the government …

Wild experience today at the Oral Surgeon’s office. I had to go in and get this “thing” cut out of my lip. Looked like a blister, but it wasn’t.Dr. Oral Surgeon said he can laser it off in a few seconds, which is true, he did. But before that, he numbed my lip and so the numbing could commence. “Be …