Don’t Get Me Wrong!
If you travel internationally you might consider picking up a copy of the bookDon’t Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide by Julia Grosse and Judith Reker. It’s a book of photographs showing various hand…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #22
It was January of 1981. I was a senior at Westmont and found myself in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a Sierra Trek program that taught about caring for God’s creation. D’Aun, my fiance at…
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Shhh…Quiet…Introverts Writing
It was a couples small group study when I first found my voice about being an introvert. Of the twelve or so people in the study, nine or ten were extroverts. Not surprising given that…
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Birth of the Living Library
If you liked the video I posted with the choreographed books, you’ll probably enjoy the earliest version of the idea from the same creators. It’s fun! As always, email subscribers can see it here.
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #23
There may be no job more difficult than raising a child. I was certainly unprepared that day when D’Aun looked at me and said, “Guess what!?!” Finding out that we were about to be parents…
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The Living Library
We’re moving into a new home soon and we are creating an office layout that allows for most of our books. I say “we” loosely, since D’Aun is doing most of the work. And since…
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Lost Kingdom, by Julia Flynn Siler
Over a decade ago I got off a plane in Maui and stepped into a different world. Not the world of palm trees, vast beaches, gentle waves and tropical beauty, but a political, historical and…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #24
My parents, both born in the early 1920’s, struggled through the Great Depression. Their families were poor even before the stock market collapse of 1929. My mother was born in an Oklahoma coal mining community….