by Lisa-Jo | May 14, 2015 | Cheering for you, Girlfriends
They asked me to speak at our church’s monthly women’s breakfast. I had no idea what to say or where to begin. All I could think of is my long list of things I get wrong. On repeat. I’m not afraid of this list. I’m not embarrassed by it. I don’t feel the need to hide...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 6, 2015 | Books you should read, Girlfriends
The older I get the more I think about friendship. I’m sitting across a cup of tea in Christie’s 100 year old farm house when I tell her, “I didn’t realize how lonely I was last year.” She’s known me since the days I swore...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 26, 2015 | (in)courage, Cheering for you, Girlfriends
This past week our family was so sick we couldn’t see straight. It was a 72-hour marathon of toilets and buckets and bowls, and the laundry running round the clock on repeat. One by one I watched each kid succumb until it was finally my turn. Pete was the last...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 29, 2014 | Blogging, Books you should read, Girlfriends
After reading all your responses to yesterday’s post. How hard we have to fight the fear of being left out; the myth of scarcity that screams I must be noticed, invited, included, appreciated or I. will. vanish. May I offer an antidote? Because I have found the...
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...
