Free Stuff, Take 3

I’ll go ahead and admit it. I am a huge Don Miller fan. I love EVERYTHING I’ve read that he has written. And I love EVERYTHING I’ve heard him say. His words simply resonate. I read Blue Like Jazz when I was in my late twenties and pretty skeptical of the religious rigamarole. Don’s candor […]

Spent

Last Friday I wrote that I had a heavy heart. Today I am just spent. Spent. Literally I’ve got nothing. Nothing. Around noon on Sunday I returned to Nashville to be greeted by a few inches of standing water in my basement apartment. My roommate and I spent the better part of the day futilely […]

Today is the Day

Today is the day. Today is the day we all have been waiting for, or at least the day I have been waiting for. Today is the official release date for my pastor and Thomas Nelson author Pete Wilson’s debut book Plan B. Have you ever had a shattered dream? An unmet expectation? A failed plan? […]

Playing Matchmaker

I am one of those people who has lots of circles of friends. Single girl friends, church friends, work friends, “campus” friends, Powered by Hope friends, blogging friends, twitter friends, high school friends, college friends, Birmingham friends, camp friends…just to name a few. So naturally I have several friends who have never had the opportunity […]

Miscellaneous Thoughts from Thirty Thousand Feet

Right now I am making the journey home after three long-but-amazing days in New York City for the O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference. And while I am feeling the pressure to get out a thought-provoking blog post, I feel like all my circuits are…well, a little overloaded. Here’s are just a few of […]

Picking Up and Laying Down Roots

I moved to Nashville two and a half years ago to work for Thomas Nelson. It was a big move for me. BIG. I had been in Birmingham, Alabama, for eight years. Birmingham was my place. I built a life there. I built a home there. And candidly I was not certain that the Nashville […]

A Few Things I Learned Today

Today was one of those days where I learned new things. I love learning new things. And maybe some of you love learning new things too, so I am sharing them with you so perhaps you can share in my “knowledgeable bliss.” 1. Mashable lists Michael Hyatt as one of the most influential twitterers shaping […]

Women of Faith

A week or so ago, I traveled to Dallas, Texas for the Women of Faith Conference. Women of Faith is a division of Thomas Nelson and so it was essentially a work trip. And candidly, without my connection to Thomas Nelson, I probably wouldn’t have attended a Women of Faith conference. You see I don’t […]

Who Moved My Cheese?

Luckily, I have always been someone who embraced change. I say luckily because my world has changed a lot. Over the last 32 years, I have changed schools, cities, workplaces, job functions, homes, cell phone numbers, and friends. My first real experience with change was when I was elementary school. My family moved the summer […]