by Lisa-Jo | Nov 18, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith, Motherhood
I read a whole book in the last two days. I can’t remember when last I did that. My life is usually so stop-and-go between wiping bottoms, reading Spiderman chronicles, and picking up stray cherios from all over the planet. But when stranded between time zones...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 9, 2010 | Blogging, Family, Kids, Motherhood
Sometimes sleep is just more important than writing. Know what I mean?
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 2, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a recovering “Lame Sponsor” with Compassion International. I have a checkered past when it comes to keeping up regular correspondence with the two boys we sponsor. To date, a five year old in Ghana has been out-writing me! That all...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 26, 2010 | (in)courage, Blogging, Callings, Faith
Loneliness is an aching, breaking parting of the heart and the ways as the days drift into the dark of American night after night and I sigh and miss the deep blue, black African sky. I have been homesick as long as I can remember. I have lived in South Africa and...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 19, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith
Remember those “word association” games? When someone says a word and you say the first thing that comes into your mind. For example, if I say “peanut butter.” You’d probably say, “jelly.” (Unless you’re British or South African, in which case you’d probably say jam....
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 20, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Compassion, Faith, Travel
Click to hear an audio recording of: “Why I Sing in the Dark” by Lisa-Jo, The Gypsy Mama Sometimes a song drops into your soul. And it’s as warm as the sun shining out of the chaos at midnight as a friend tic, tack, toe types beauty out of bedlam by the...
