by Mary Carver | Apr 17, 2019 | Faith Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places
I used to watch a TV show called Blindspot with my husband. I liked the show, but he quickly found it ridiculous – too preposterous to waste time watching. He’s not wrong. The premise and nearly all the story lines are incredibly unrealistic. But I keep watching....
by Mary Carver | Apr 16, 2019 | Books, Movies & TV, The Couch Podcast
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Amy Clark, founder of MomAdvice.com and host of The MomAdvice Book Club on Facebook. Fun fact: I’ve worked with Amy, writing posts for her site, for several years — but this was the first time we met! Amy...
by Mary Carver | Apr 11, 2019 | Books, Movies & TV, Giving Up on Perfect
This post was originally published in 2017. On the way to the theater, we stopped at the gas station to stock up on M&Ms (a bag in every flavor except pretzel, because gross, and two bags of peanut butter, because delicious). As we got back on the road, I...
by Mary Carver | Apr 9, 2019 | The Couch Podcast
This week my friend Alia Joy and I talk about the people in pop culture we’ve admired and looked up to. And we also talked about the difficulty of finding someone to look up to when nobody looks like you. (Annnnd I realized the characters I liked most as a kid...
by Mary Carver | Apr 4, 2019 | Books, Movies & TV
It seems like every new movie released these days is a sequel, a superhero story, or based on a book. Sometimes that irritates me, because surely there must be creators and artists out there coming up with original stories. Right? Somewhere? But other times —...
