Holy catfish, y’all – my day started with a Meredith Vieira sighting in Starbucks and ended with a concert by Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Tom Jones, Annie Lennox and Paul McCartney – given for me and 250,000 of my closest friends. I get to do this kind of stuff. SERIOUSLY. I slept WAY later than I wanted to this morning, and was rewarded for my laziness twice over – faster Internet connection speeds to upload…
Cheerio from merry olde England! (All right, that’s enough of that…) Landed this morning after a delightful flight over in Business Class – I slept (kinda) comfortably on a trans-Atlantic flight for the first time ever. Bless you, British Airways, and your full-reclining little pod-thingies. In preparation for the week, I watched “My Week with Marilyn” on the way over. Kenneth Brannagh is the male Meryl Streep when it comes to accents – he totally…
Hey, friends! Greetings from the Business Class Lounge at O’Hare Airport, where I’m kickin’ it as I wait for my flight to start boarding. Thank you, Dad’s travel expenses on my British Airways credit card, for giving me the points to take the flight with an upgrade! When I first arrived, the middle-aged British couple next to me toasted each other with their glasses of wine, saying “Cheers!” and I nearly giggled out loud at…
I’m spending 52 weeks exploring things that make me beautiful. You should do the same. To read this whole series, click here! Had to take a wee bit of a bloggy break from this series, as we had some family in town for Mother’s Day and then some drama as my grandmother took a fall in her bathroom (she’s fine, but took a hit to her nose that resulted in some crazy bruising. But she’s…
Lots of folks probably know Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” We quote it often at each other, we Jesus folk, as a reassurance that God knows what’s going on, and that whatever is troubling us in life really is part of His good plan. And that’s true –…