by Lisa-Jo | Sep 6, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Family
Home is where you don’t have to care if you have morning hair. Home is where you can slurp the last of your soda and suck every delicious drop of juice-running-down-your-elbows deliciousness out of a ripe nectarine. Home is where you can wear your PJs all day...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 2, 2010 | Faith, Motherhood, South Africa
My father sat in the pew of a church in Philadelphia with a slip of paper in his hands. The cold encamped outside was a far cry from the mosquito hot shores of South Africa. Three years. He had brought his young family Stateside for three years to add a Masters of...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 31, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Travel
In one week I will board a plane with a team of three other bloggers and travel to Guatemala with Compassion International. I want you to come with me. I want to paint a picture of the child development programs we visit that is vivid enough for you to feel the sun on...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 26, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
Click on the link below (twice) to download and listen to an audio recording of me reading today’s post. Once it’s loaded you can come back to this page to read along. My Zululand; My Birthday Under the boughs of the mango groves in the heat of the hot,...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s not always how you might imagine. I think cupcakes are very effective. But not as effective as sharing stories of failure. Admitting we don’t have it altogether and that some days motherhood makes us feel just plain inadequate on every level. Showing...
