by Lisa-Jo | Aug 1, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
For the new folks around these parts, I should probably tell you about Fridays. So, here’s the skinny: every Friday for over two years hundreds of people have joined a kind of writing flash mob over here. We write for five minutes flat. All on the same prompt that I...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 1, 2013 | Family, Motherhood, The ordinary extraordinary
I’m sitting at the kitchen table and there are 14 years worth of scratches and markers and crayons lived into these planks. There’s an empty teacup and the smell of dirty baby diaper in the air. Boys will be back soon from the skate park with their dad and I haven’t...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 27, 2013 | Links full of wow
After long weeks and too much spaghetti sauce encrusted onto dirty dishes it can be hard to remember that the world is full of wow. And that there are people, women, mothers filling up the Internet with so much amazing grace it makes it easier for the rest of us to...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 26, 2013 | Five Minute Friday
My site has been having troubles on and off for the last two days. I guess you write a post about how Hollywood has jaded our love stories and how you’re reclaiming yours and so many others arrive to say, Amen, that the server can’t quite handle the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 22, 2013 | Love me my man, Marriage
“My love life will never be satisfactory until someone runs through an airport to stop me from getting on a flight.” ~Teenager post of the week via the Huffington Post. He drove us all home 18 hours over two days. Three kids and hundreds of miles and potty breaks and...
