by Lisa-Jo | Oct 24, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
There is a room full of women all sharing their hearts and their words with each other. Right now. Here. Together tonight. At the Allume Conference. You’re with us too because this is our safe space. This Friday exhale of words without the editor’s voice....
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 23, 2013 | (in)courage, (in)RL, Girlfriends
I’m sharing about friendship over here today… About how when we keep showing up in the small things and when you add them up over a lifetime they are the big, world changing things that can happen in one neighborhood between two streets. I’m sharing...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 21, 2013 | Family, Girlfriends, Our crazy little rental house
Sunday afternoons in South Africa — there were always watermelons bopping in the swimming pool. It was to keep them cool till they could be split for dessert. But to us kids they were just a challenge to ride, to raft, to water polo between ourselves until a grown up...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 18, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
So, it’s been a week. First you all raised $5,000 in less than 12 hours for a community water and laundry project in South Africa. (Stay tuned for what we’re gonna build next month!) Second I flew to Kansas City to be at the MOPS International Convention...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 16, 2013 | Blogging, South Africa
There are days it’s easy to feel like an orphan. Or lost in a grown up’s life. My family live an ocean away and my daughter stood and screamed for a good ten minutes without her drawers while seated on her potty yesterday. Screamed good and red in the face...
