Bella Is Beautiful

I loved this movie. Before tonight, I had been reading everywhere lots of elaborate adjectives to describe it, like beautiful, intelligent, vivid, low-key, subtle, complex, symbolic, sensitive, intimate, and powerful. Wow, that’s a lot for a movie to live up to. But I truly think it lived up to all of those things. I wish that there [...]

Are You Sure?

 
I reread “Giving Your Heart Away” yesterday after getting another great comment on the entry, so when I was listening to Bethany Dillon tonight, a song of hers struck a chord with that thought process. She has a great little guitar ballad on her new album Waking Up. It’s called “Are You Sure?” and to [...]

Engagements Galore

Bethany Dillon and Shane Barnard are engaged! How sweet! I have to confess that I don’t listen to Shane and Shane very often, but Bethany Dillon is one of my favorite music artists. She’s an amazing writer, too. Read her journal on her site for some great reflections on Jesus and Scripture and life and [...]

A Good Laugh

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I found this in the Girl Talk archives. The baby won’t be the only one laughing while you’re watching it! He’s so cute!!

Stay-at-Home Daughters

In the past few years I’ve noticed a growing trend, almost entirely among homeschool families: daughters who choose to remain at home after graduating from high school, and plan on doing so until they get married. Some of these young women have made a commitment to focus almost solely on learning the arts of housewifery.
I’ve noticed [...]

What a Shocker

 
Another young female celebrity has been in the news headlines in the past few weeks for saying something outrageous. She originally said it in an Entertainment Tonight interview, and it ended up all over the celebrity gossip headlines, and mainstream headlines like MSNBC and Yahoo! (which is where I saw it).
Katie Holmes said that she [...]