1. Faux-Leather Moto Boots | Old Navy 2. Beard Buddy Starter Kit | Anthropologie 3. Bus and Kids by goosegrease | Etsy 4. Two-Strap Mary Jane Flats| The Gap 5. Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Grapes and Walnuts | Martha Stewart 6. Plaid sherpa-lined shirt jacket | The Gap 7. Quilted wool biker jacket | The Gap 8. Ella + Mila | Mommy & Me Polish Set 9. Jennifer Vallez | Stay Gold Art Print . . .
What I want you to know is that if you are Christian and gay, it gets better!
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Sabrina. I grew up in a church where I was the leader of the “cool group” in youth group. Younger kids came to me for godly advice, I was apart of multiple bible study small . . .
A Thanksgiving giveaway: the Asus Memo Pad 8
I’ve got fun giveaway today that might be a great gift option for someone you love (or maybe you will keep it for yourself.) It’s the ASUS MeMo Pad 8 – a lightweight tablet that runs on the Android platform. I’ve got this very tablet and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve never had a tablet before, though all of my kids have late-model ipads. I was curious to see how this tablet would work for me. I’m a longtime fan of the Asus brand (I’m typing this on my Asus computer) but I have never had an . . .
James Baldwin for Esquire magazine in 1960
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What I want you to know about the pain of being told you can’t have children
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Laura. On my 21st birthday I was taken into hospital with a suspected infected ovarian cyst. I was living 300 miles away from home for a university years placement, but I . . .
College expectations and the burden of debt
This post was sponsored by Scholarshare. To say education is important in our family is a bit of an understatement. Our parents were educators. Mark and I both have advanced degrees. Both of us grew up watching our fathers pursue Ph.Ds. We grew up with the expectation that we would go to college. But we grew up with another expectation, too: Both of us were made aware from the beginning that we would have to pay for our college education. All of it—room, board, books—was on our . . .
What I want you to know about being a Special Needs Mom
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Suzanne Perryman. I am a special needs mom. And I have secrets. Things I don’t talk about and stuff that other mom’s don’t know or may have forgotten along the way... Special . . .
That’s what SHE said: morning routines, rules of attraction, turning down band-aids, baby boomers ruining parenting, and more . . .
Anne Lamott: My Secret Little Prayer | Salon.Com When I pray, which I do many times a day, I pray for a lot of things. I ask for health and happiness for my friends, and for their children. This is okay to do, to ask God to help them have a sense of peace, and for them to feel the love of God. I pray for our leaders to act in the common good, or at least the common slightly better. I pray that aid and comfort be rushed to people after catastrophes, natural and man-made. It is also okay to ask . . .
Friday Finds
1. Gold y bangle set | Zulily 2. Racer bundle by Little Modern | Gilt 3. Ivory necklace | Tom's 4. Black Girls Can by Rachel Garlinghouse | Amazon 5. Warm roasted sweet potato salad | thecozyapron.com 6. Men's Happy Birthday Jesus sweater| Tipsy Elves 7. Sweater-knit pom-pom hat | Old Navy 8. Leslie quilted short boot | Gilt 9. Becca Dress by Olive Juice | Gilt . . .
What I want you to know about loving a child diagnosed with SMA type 1
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Denise. Having a family member diagnosed with an often fatal disease is life at its worst. Especially when that family member is 4 months old. My nephew was recently diagnosed with . . .
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