What’s On My iPod (book-wise)
On My Kindle/Droid/iPad On My iPod These are the books I listen to while walking, driving, cleaning the kitchen or doing my hair. (Whoever said curly hair was easy has sniffed too much product. I have to spend about 35 minutes every couple of days so that I don't look...
How to Get Your Husband to do (just about) Anything
On Tuesday Roger and I will begetting up at 4:30 in the morning, (have I mentioned that I am not a morning person?) to fly to New Mexico to teach at the Ghost Ranch CLASS Christian Writers Conference. We must really love writers in order to get up before many farmers....
A Few of the Things on my Nightstand (and on my Kindle, and on my Droid, and on my iPad…)
It's pretty funny. When ever I recommend a book on the blog, I will have people tell me 4-6 months later that they read the book and LOVED it. I think that many of the reader here have some of the same book passions I do so let me recommend some of the tinges I've...
Giveaway: God’s Truth Revealed by Kathy Howard – Featured Author
Every once in a while I like to feature one of my favorite authors and give away some swag. Here is the wonderful Kathy Howard talking about her new book God's Truth Revealed. If after reading her excerpt below you want a copy of the book, just leave a comment below...
Winners of the Mini-Challenge
It has been a wild and wooly couple of weeks around here - first I was down with the death ful, and then we had a medical emergency of the parental kind and I'm now up in Sacramento hanging out with my parents and trying to keep my mom from quilting so she can heal....
Crocktoberfest Day #3 Chicken Cacciatore
this is one of my favorite go to recipes - super-easy and everyone in the family loves it. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 6 hours Total Time: 6 hours, 15 minutes Ingredients: •3 lbs. bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed •14 oz. can diced tomatoes with Italian...
Crocktoberfest Day 2 SLOW COOKER BEEF STROGANOFF
I guess I am hunkering down for winter - here is my second recipe in a row that is for the crock and is all about the beef... And who can blame me - I made the tri-tip on Monday and let it simmer all day in the slow cooker. It was the warmest, coziest day I've had in...
Crocktoberfest and Finishing Up the Mini-Project
I has been a long week. I have had the flu and after feeling super-yucky for a while, I came home after a speaking engagement on Thursday and (if I were living in a Jane Austin novel,) took to my bed. I will announce the winners of the Husband Mini-Project on...
Mini Husband Project #4 – Post it Notes
If you've heard me speak on the subject of The Husband Project, you know I love the post it note project. All I'm asking you to do today is to write a post it note and post it somewhere that your husband will see it. It can be something encouraging, it can be...