Okay Carrot Dude fans … your wait is over. It’s movie time!Nuke some popcorn, grab a Diet Coke and scrape some used bubble gum from the bottom of your chair. Incredible Edible Superheroes proudly presents … The Amazing Adventures of Carrot Dude! Guaranteed to be the best 2-minute adventure flick you’ll see today or your money back! Copyright ...
Fifty Shades of Play
Wanna play?Grown-ups don’t get that question nearly enough. Especially from other grown-ups. And MOST especially from their spouses.This revelation dawned on me during a God-smack moment the other day when Chuck entered my writing cave and performed his customary early-morning greeting. He pressed his balled up fist to his forehead and genuflected.I’m not funnin’ ya. ...
The Amazing Adventures of Carrot Dude
Carrot Dude was all about rejoicing! 🙂
Believing in Fences
Fenway caught red-pawed Dang. There’s another hole. Ole Fenway’s been at it again. This must be the 15th escape attempt (most of them successful, I might add) since we fenced our backyard three weeks ago. The conclusion is obvious. My dog doesn’t believe in fences. I should have known that from the beginning; after all, ...
The Amazing Adventures of Carrot Dude
Carrot Dude goes shopping It’s been an A+ week – I don’t remember when I’ve had so much fun! And it’s all because of an unexpected 6-inch friend I dug out of my garden last weekend. Such personality for a vegetable! I knew the moment I uprooted Carrot Dude that he was someone special, with ...
Do You Have a “Be Still & Know” Place?
The path leading to my Be Still & Know spot in the mountains Eureka! I found it! A little soggy maybe, and I sometimes leave there polka-dotted with more than a few mosquito pox, but it’s a special secret spot that I know Papa God picked out specially for me. Why do I need such ...
Perfecting My Stinky Face
Stinky Face Contest Winner Yesterday’s conversation as my 3-year-old grandbuddy Blaine watched me putting on my make-up to go to work: Blaine: What’s that stuff do, Mimi?Me: It’s blush; it makes me look less dead, er, I mean it gives me more color.Blaine: Oh. Why do you want to be pink?Me: I don’t want to ...
An Exquisite Mystery
Prayer: the least and the most we can do I’ve just finished doing something that made me feel bad. Really, really bad. I immersed myself in a vat of scalding pain. Someone else’s pain. The shell-shocked parents who lost their beautiful 24-year-old daughter to suicide with no warning. No symptoms. No good-byes. The mom who ...
And The Winners Are …
Valentine’s Day hugs and kisses to the winners of sweet love, love love! Or at least a book about it! The following 3 lovely (get it – love-ly???) ladies have each won a copy of my newest book Too Loved to be Lost in honor of this day when we celebrate the greatest thing besides Godiva: LOVE!! ...
A New Dent in my Fender
Now this cake I can make! One of the chapters in my newest book, Too Loved to be Lost, is about colliding with difficult people. It’s called, appropriately, “Dents in My Fender.” So of course a collision occurred this week. Papa God loves to bring home these lessons I think I’ve learned. Poetic justice. A ...