I’m interrupting this holiday [with grateful in my heart to all the servicemen and women] to say this: EEEEEEEK! Let me explain: Starting in July 2012, I get to be one of the speakers for the Girls of Grace Conference. Hence the EEEEEEEK!. I’m sure you understand. I’ve updated my AnnieSpeaks page, so you can see
TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . Earlier this week, I stood around a kitchen island, drinking
I’m a huge Waltons fan. I mean, I love that show so deeply. It’s a family thing- we were raised on it. It’s also an Appalachian thing- they are my people. So it is what I would deem a life-long love we’ve got going on, me and the Waltons. Ask any of my friends. It’s
As much as writing about being single has kinda grown on me, there are still days. Like today. There are days like today where I write something brutally honest on a bad day and while it is 100% true, it still makes me want to hide out for a week or month or an undetermined
TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . My pal Lyndsay Rush wrote a great post this week
My people. They are gone. My Tuesday nights have gotten so quiet now that the gals have all gone home for the summer. No more recipes, no more small group snoozle parties, no more crying and laughing at the same time. [Yes, we did that. Often.] One of the hard parts of leading a college
Here’s the situation. I have some people, you met two of them and there are a few more, that have started checking in on ole AnnieBlogs. In fact, my friend Will just the other day said, “hey, I like your blog thingy you’ve got going on. It’s cool.” [That’s a paraphrase, but I know he
For the last few weeks, I’ve been calling these “the witching hours” until today when I actually went and read the definition of “witching hour” and yikes. So these hours shall henceforth be known at The Wasting Hours. . . . . . It seems, that in my new full-time job as an author, I
TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . I love instagram. [I also am growing to love phonto,
Ok, well, that’s not totally true. I mean, I work. I just don’t have what the world would call “a real job” anymore. [But welcome to Nashville where most of us don’t. I like it.] Since August of 2008, Mocha Club has been a weekly part of my life. I started as a volunteer for a
