The Barnes and Noble at Rivertown Crossings Mall is staged for a Grand Opening and I’m going to be there personalizing books for customers.
If you live within driving distance from Granville, MI, I’d love to see you in person. Come visit and stay a while. :)
Here are the details:
Rivertown B & N Press Release
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I was one of those weird bookworm kids.
The kind who is half tomboy, but who simultaneously wished she lived in the library.
So summer was the time to stock up on books.
I would lay out in the yard, letting the sunshine on my face and the words in my hand transport me to the kinds of [...]
Many of you know my story. I worked full time as a staffer at an innovative, artistic church right out of college.
Somewhere along the way I became disillusioned with institutional religion. And I wrote a book about it called Dear Church. I was 24.
During that time, my husband and I moved into the Jackson area, [...]
Last week, I had the surreal but pleasant experience of going back to my home high school to give the commencement address.
The first challenge of course was the jokes. They had to be drawn from the “shared” parts of community; from the common experiences of growing up in this particular midwestern town of [...]
I got an email on Tuesday.
“Due to the financial condition of the district and student enrollment as of this date, changes have caused the displacement/bumping of staff.”
It went on to explain that there had been cuts and a more senior employee had taken my spot.
Displaced.
That is what they call it.
Meaning…literally
You have no place.
The email was [...]
Some people talk about the Holy Spirit like he chooses their breakfast cereal for them each morning.
Or like he finds them parking spots.
Or like he makes their red lights green on command.
As if he’s the butler of the trinity.
The spirit hasn’t ever worked that way for me.
But there have been times when an idea, a [...]
I’ve been reading A LOT lately.
I get a lot of free books.
Plan B is one of them.
Since I love books, this is AWESOME. A little slice of Heaven (or at least its library) right here in my bedroom.
But when the piles of free books stack up, it can be difficult to absorb every book fully; [...]
God is green. “…I’m as sure of that statement as I am that two plus two is four and the mixing of red and yellow makes orange.”
This is where Jonathan Merritt, faith and culture writer, starts in his new book Green Like God, which chronicles his journey away from “enviro-ambivalence”. Jonathan is a self-proclaimed convert [...]
So…the verdict on the Sleep Challenge? Upping my sleep was such a simple way to restore noticeable energy and health to my daily schedule.
I’ve been clocking out by 11 every night, which gets me a full seven hours. Beautiful. At least half the nights, I’ve been aiming at 8 hours. Yep. 8 hours.
The results?
I’ve been [...]
Continuing the emphasis on sleeping enough this week:
There is a clear link between sleep and satisfaction with a marriage. Marriages where couples don’t get enough sleep are strained by daytime sleepiness and lack of emotional energy.
Not to mention, a healthy sex life and sleep are connected. Sleep enough? You have energy for sex. Have sex [...]
