Guest Blogger Laura Hodges Poole: My Middle Name is Not ‘Doormat’ (& Neither is Yours)

Guest Blogger Laura Hodges Poole: My Middle Name is Not ‘Doormat’ (& Neither is Yours)

Julie’s note: Laura Hodges Poole is a great writer and a fellow ACFW Scribes critique group member. She writes on a subject I know well, people pleasing. When I share my story I talk about how my rock-bottom moment came when I whittled an eggplant at 2am for a perfect Christmas penguin centerpiece no one…

Marriage Monday—I Always Sleep with My Thin Pillow My Husband Calls a Sheet

Marriage Monday—I Always Sleep with My Thin Pillow My Husband Calls a Sheet

Wishing you a wonderful day off if you’re able to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. day today.   It’s time for Marriage Monday. Join e-Mom and women from around the world, I suppose, as we blog twice a month about marriage. Today is a prompt for women only where you take the following prompts and…

Sabbath Sunday: Your New Normal

Sabbath Sunday: Your New Normal

It’s a new year, time to work on those goals, themes, and for some, resolutions. But for too many, it’s a time to not just look back, but stare and wish for the clock to turn back and stay there. If you’re here today, it isn’t by accident. Every Sunday I share a thought or…

Character Confession: I’d Drag My Feet but I’d Probably Have to File a Claim

Character Confession: I’d Drag My Feet but I’d Probably Have to File a Claim

Saturday! I hope it means sleep in day, but it also means I share my Character Confession.         Back in September I wrote about “Second verse, same as the first” because I continue to face situations that seem an awful like other things I’ve been through that I didn’t want to endure…