http://segullah.org tidbits and talk between journal issues Mon, 12 May 2008 01:51:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's my most recent motherhood faux pas (okay, the most recent one was ten minutes ago, but it wasn't good enough to blog about): Two weeks ago my first grader brought home a note saying his class would be dismissed two hours early the following Monday and Tuesday. Crap, I thought. I ... http://segullah.org/slice-of-life/in-the-interest-of-full-disclosure/ Talk to me about scripture study. I need to do it every day more faithfully. I also need to do about 479,000 other things every day. The Lord is kind of yelling at me right now in exhortation. How do you do it? How do you make it meaningful? How do you invite the Spirit into ... http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/improvement/ "If you can't behave yourself then I'm not going to bring you to Costco again!"  I said these words, which wouldn't have been such a big deal, except that I was saying them to my mother.  She had already been scolded twice by the Costco sample ladies for trying to grab ... http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/crazy-little-thing-called-mom/ While Deborah was defending her non-book-snob status last week, I was also coming to terms with my own. And I guess here is where I must admit that I'm a bleeding-heart-book-snob. I think there are books filled with nuance and beauty and books that are thinly veiled propaganda abounding ... http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/book-review-from-a-book-snob-jessica-drapers-hunting-gideon/ Today's guest post comes to us from Kacy Falconer of the simply fabulous Every Day I Write the Book. Thank you Kacy! We hope you'll grace us with a few pages from your book again sometime. My mom was a working mom. She worked every day, made dinner every night, did ... http://segullah.org/guest-post/history-of-my-housewifery/ Today we have another great guest post from Lori, of Hearts and Hands. Thanks Lori! Ours was a friendship that, over the years, dissolved into what could be termed as a mere acquaintanceship. I left the neighborhood we both lived in and vowed to return to see Julie as often as ... http://segullah.org/guest-post/promises/ I remember when my first was born and the foreign utterance that crossed my lips to my dad, while I was still in the hospital with my new baby. "Now I know what joy is," I told him. And he said, that's right, that's exactly right. In Darlene's beautiful poem, in the ... http://segullah.org/segullah-article-discussions/what-have-you-tasted/ Recently, a dear friend confided in me. "I didn't like my book club's book last month. I'm sure it was beautiful and masterful, but it was about abuse and sex and a horrible sad life. It didn't matter that there was redemption. It was too awful to read. I must not ... http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/sophistry-for-sure/ Mother's Day is in eight days--can I recommend a gift subscription to Segullah for your mom/wife/friend? Our Spring issue, Roots and Branches, is at the presses now, and it's wonderful. I am so excited about it. I was trying to be all professional about this announcement, something like "From the ... http://segullah.org/announcements/mothers-day-gift-segullah-subscription/ Last week I went to the grocery store and while I was casually meandering past the aisle of rice and beans I got quite a shock. The rice row was completely empty. Here's the thing. There is no shortage of rice in the U.S. We produce some 95% of the rice we ... http://segullah.org/ask-nine-women/576/