by Mary Carver | Sep 12, 2012 | Faith Life
Dear 18-Year-Old Mary, Don’t freak out. Yes, this is a letter from the future. But I promise no Stargate-like time warp was involved. Just a little blog magic. [What’s a blog? Right. That’s for another conversation.] So, you know how your mom keeps...
by Mary Carver | Sep 10, 2012 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life
This spring I read through my friend Emily’s book with a group of friends. Though I’d known these three women for several years, the Sunday nights we spent discussing Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life by Emily P. Freeman taught me so...
by Mary Carver | Sep 7, 2012 | Faith Life, Family Life
Are you living in community? That question sure seems to be popular right now. The encouragement to develop authentic, doing-life-together relationships with people, the chastisement to stop hiding, stop being afraid of getting hurt – it’s all the rage,...
by Mary Carver | Sep 4, 2012 | Faith Life
How many types of ketchup do we really need? My daughter has always been observant to an uncanny degree. This means, first of all, that you cannot have “for grown-up ears only” conversations around her, make promises (or threats) you don’t intend to...
by Mary Carver | Sep 3, 2012 | recipes & food
In her nearly five years, Annalyn has done a lot of great things, things to make us proud. Things like finally learning to walk after months of physical therapy, coloring a whole picture while staying (mostly) in the lines, learning to wash her hair on her own,...
