Five Minute Friday: Relevant

by Lisa-Jo | Oct 28, 2011 | Blogging, Five Minute Friday

On Fridays around these parts we stop, drop, and write. For fun, for love of the sound of words, for play, for delight, for joy and celebration at the art of communication. For only five short, bold, beautiful minutes. Unscripted and unedited. We just write without...

Because people are more interesting than statistics

by Lisa-Jo | Oct 27, 2011 | (in)courage, Blogging

Sometimes it’s hard to know when to speak and when to listen. Sometimes it’s even harder to speak when you think no one’s listening. …I’m sharing at (in)courage today about what we can do on those days when we wished more people cared about our...

On resisting the itch of social media

by Lisa-Jo | Oct 20, 2011 | Blogging, Faith

It’s an itch. That desperate need to keep desperately checking email, twitter, Facebook. And if there’s no new news, I can scratch myself raw with all the clicking over and looking and wondering why no one’s noticing. It’s the itch that gets no real satisfaction...

Sacrifice, Sanctification, and Scrubbing Toilets {An interview in which I admit random stuff}

by Lisa-Jo | Oct 17, 2011 | Blogging, Callings, Family, Marriage

Have you heard of the Nester’s 31 Days series? She’s done it for three years now each October. This year over 700 people are participating. I know, right? I am not one of them. I wasn’t brave enough to commit to 31 days of posts in a row. But today...

Five Minute Friday: Growing

by Lisa-Jo | Sep 23, 2011 | Blogging, Family, Five Minute Friday

We write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We write bold and beautiful and free. Unscripted and unedited. We just write without worrying if it’s just write or not. Won’t you join us? 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no...

For when you want to catch a moment

by Lisa-Jo | Sep 19, 2011 | Blogging, Travel

So my dad’s text messages wend their way to me from the Southern Hemisphere and I plaster them – band aid like – across my heart. It’s been two months since we were with them and already the photos we’ve printed and plastered across the...