When I was a little girl, I didn’t like raw tomatoes. I think probably because my first exposure to them was to unripened and tasteless ones from the grocery store. There are very few things I don’t like to eat, so I assume my experiences early on must have been bad ones. But then I grew up and graduated college (I managed to maintain my distaste consistently for most of my … [Read more...]
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Best Pound Cake Ever
I'm not sure where to begin to share about the activities that have transpired in the past 3 weeks of our lives, but on New Year's Day, it sort of began when our HVAC literally started smoking and caught on fire. About an hour later, our septic tank began overflowing poo and other grossness into our front yard. Clearly, we had issues. Last week we escaped our problems … [Read more...]
The Eyes of Our Hearts
It's 4 in the morning here in Dhaka, Bangladesh and I'm wide awake on the one day that we actually have time to sleep in. Isn't that the way that it goes?! We've heard about the tornado-forming storms crossing the east coast of the United States, and I can't help but wish that despite my hatred of bad storms, I want to be home with my family to weather it. But I'm not, and I … [Read more...]
Fashion Week: Put Your Best Face Forward…Tips from a Make-Up Artist!
Oh friends, do I have a treat for you today! This girl...seriously, YOU WILL LOVE! I'm a natural networker, so when I realized my old boarding school (yes...I went to boarding school) buddy, Darden, was married to a for real professional make-up artist who once upon a million years ago I actually met...I totally set out to meet her again. First I looked up her shop, Luxe … [Read more...]
Pause Your Life In Yesterville!
I have something exciting to share with you all...and it's not just a great idea or a tip or a recipe either. It's something super awesome exciting that I've worked up with a friend to offer you guys... and well, you can thank me later for it. My friend Kim Deloach, who I've talked about no shortage of times on here, is a phenomenal photographer. I mean...PHENOMENAL! She … [Read more...]
Tales of a Lesser Woman: Not Eggsactly my Best Moment…
I bet what you're really wanting to read is something profound about Easter right now, or perhaps you are stopping by just because you're hoping that I'm posting pictures of our Easter Egg Hunt yesterday...sorry to disappoint you all...not what you're about to get. It's been a big weekend full of activity and legitimate emotion over the real meaning of it all. I'm … [Read more...]
The MisAdventures of LoLo and MaeMae: THE PODCAST!
Sarah Mae (MaeMae) and I became internet friends when it was still weird to say so out loud. Over the past decade our friendship has turned epically real-life and is one of the greatest gifts of both our lives. From our totally random (but clearly God-ordained) meeting, to running the Allume Conference side-by-side, and now just doing life together as the best of friends, we … [Read more...]
A Tribute to my Nanny
It’s hard to sort through a lifetime of memories, especially when the whole of memories, both small and large, feel more like a lifelong anthology. How do you choose just one or two tidbits “worth sharing,” when it all comes together to create an entire volume of things worth remembering. Some memories don’t stand out with all the particulars in focus, and yet some feel … [Read more...]
Rejected
I got fired. Really, I think the term that companies prefer to use is to say that I was “Let Go.” Letting someone go makes us feel like perhaps we are simply pushing their ship back from a dock to release them to bigger and better things. You have the whole ocean ahead of you and the directions and possibilities are limitless. You let people go so that you don’t hold them … [Read more...]
Fumbling Towards Reconciliation
I began today by weeping again. This week has been full of violence. From the brutal killing of Alton Sterling in Louisiana, the unwarranted shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota, and this morning I woke to news of sniper shootings on police officers at a protest in Dallas. My heart groans and my prayers offer much of the same...all saturated in a deep ache I can't … [Read more...]
8 Weeks of Curious Faith Study Videos FREE!
SO hopefully by now lots of you have ordered and are reading my new book, Curious Faith: Rediscovering Hope in the God of Possibility, because I'm insanely excited to tell you about the study curriculum I've developed to help you dig in deeper to the book and more importantly your own soul! If you don't yet have the book, you can snag it right now from any of these … [Read more...]
Curious to Understand
Today my book releases! Curious Faith is finally out in the world for all to see, and this long road I've been on to write and publish a book is a reality! I have all the feelings about the book finally coming out, but all those feelings have to sit tight just a little because as you read this I'll be on a plane returning home from China. Yes, CHINA! Today, I won't … [Read more...]
Surprise! Curious Faith Gifts for You
Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your favorite online retailer! Oh Mercy friends!!! The time has come! After nearly 2 years in the making, my very first book, Curious Faith: Rediscovering Hope in the God of Possibility is here! I was telling a friend the other day that I truly am just so proud of this book. When I look at my life and I have to answer to … [Read more...]
Pre Order – Curious Faith
We are born with an innate curiosity to explore, marvel, and believe there is more to life. But, laundry piles up. Bills pile up. Ultimately, life piles up. We can doubt God’s goodness and the everyday becomes marked by restraint, limits, and settling for the routine. Hardship extinguishes our hope and we exchange curiosity for control. Curious Faith is about rescuing … [Read more...]
Grandma’s Gluten-Free Brownies
I recently found out that I have an autoimmune disease that has been causing all sorts of skin issues, inflammation, hair falling out, muscle weakness and plenty of delightful things that aren't actually delightful. And after some tests and whatnot, some doctors told me that it might help reduce the inflammation and some of the symptoms to reduce or completely cut gluten from … [Read more...]
I Would Cuss You Out If I Did Not Love Jesus…
First let me just say that parenting is hard. It's hard to be consistent, hard to follow through with everything we say, and hard to discipline the little people that we love. But, we do it. Because if we didn't then our kids would turn into wretched adults, and we all know how much we enjoy those. And once in awhile we find ourselves really sticking to our guns and … [Read more...]
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