Look at My New Website! + A Giveaway

The giveaway winners are… (as your name appears in the comments section below) Shannon Franks Hayley Davis Laura (no last initial) Kathie Littleton Louise Warren Send me you address asap via my contact page, and I’ll mail you your Bible! Welcome to my new site! If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice that things are…

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7 Things I’ve Learned from 7 Years of Blogging

  Yesterday was my blog’s seventh birthday. I had big plans to celebrate seven years of blogging. I was going to re-post old blogs, one from each year. I was going to do “seven days of giveaways” to celebrate. I was going to write something important and good, but you see, I don’t really have…

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10 Things I've Learned, 10 Years After High School

This weekend, I attended my ten-year high school reunion. I didn’t think we would ever make it to our ten-year reunion. In high school, it seemed a million years away. But it turns out, ten years flies by like ten minutes in the real world. As we sat around in a circle reminiscing about crazy…

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A Poem for the Twenty Something

On Friday night, I packed into the sanctuary of my church in Nashville with about 700 other women to listen to author/blogger Ann Voskamp speak. Well, that was what I thought she would be doing. Before she came on stage my friend sitting in front of me turned around and said this was going to be…

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That Time I Audtioned to be on The Bachelor

It’s true, friends. Last Saturday on a hot and humid Tennessee afternoon, my friend Kelsey—a fiery, sassy, beautiful red-head in a black dress and pumps–and I—a girl with a humidity-induced fro, shorts, flat sandals and, let’s be honest, sweaty armpits—ventured to Hotel Indigo a few minutes from my house in Nashville, where auditions for next…

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