Rice Noodle Soup for Mother’s Day
Soup and sandwiches were on the menu for Mother’s Day brunch with my family yesterday, but the soup wasn’t your typical American Sunday fare. We opted to have the Rice Noodle Soup from Simply Yunnan to...
View ArticleOn Writing a New Story
To do one thing often means forsaking another. Not always, but often. To choose one thing means not choosing another. You can’t move to Texas and still live in China or Washington or anywhere else....
View ArticleFifth Bloggiversary
Five years of blogging as of today! It’s been quite a ride from when I started in the summer of 2008 as the Mountain Cafe got started up. I just took a look back down Memory Lane at those first posts...
View ArticleDressember 2013
The guys have Movember (mustache + November) to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, but have you heard of Dressember? Why am I just now hearing about this annual event where women pledge...
View ArticleThe Dressember Team
Last week I posted about the International Justice Mission fundraiser I’m joining this year — Dressember. Every day of December I’ll be wearing a dress in an attempt to raise awareness of IJM’s work in...
View ArticleAdvent and Dressember
I’ve made a couple of posts about the fact that I’m participating in Dressember this year to raise money for International Justice Mission, and since wearing my handful of dresses this past several...
View ArticleA Dressember Reading List
It just wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t find a way to tie in my recent posts on Dressember to one of my favorite subjects of all time: books. Reading has been a big part of making me who I am today,...
View ArticleThank You for Dressember — and a Video
A new year has begun, and Dressember 2013 has come to a close. I want to thank everyone who supported me and Suzie and Beverly in our campaign — our little group raised $1500, and the overall...
View ArticleThe Locust Effect
“While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence.”...
View ArticleBook Review: The Explicit Gospel
Review: The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson Available here by Crossway or here from Amazon. Note: I’m doing this book review as part of Crossway’s Beyond the Page program and...
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