by Mary Carver | Aug 11, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, friendship, Movie Moments
A few weeks ago, my husband and I saw a movie called Yesterday. It’s about Jack, a struggling musician who’s hit by a bus during a worldwide power outage. When he wakes up, the world is going on like normal, but he quickly realizes things aren’t quite the same as...
by Mary Carver | Aug 4, 2019 | friendship
This post was originally posted at (in)courage. Do you have authentic friendships? Are you living in true community? Those questions sure seem to be popular right now. The encouragement to develop authentic, doing-life-together relationships with people, the...
by Mary Carver | Feb 6, 2019 | Books, Movies & TV, Family Life, friendship
This post was originally published in 2015, but time has not dulled my love for this show. I love it SO MUCH. So VERY much. I like TV and [some people say] I watch a lot of TV. And I really love talking to people about TV. I like a lot of different types of shows,...
by Mary Carver | Jan 17, 2018 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, friendship, Movie Moments
Last weekend I got into a bit of a social media fight over a slightly political statement I made. Not one part of that sentence is normal for me, so it caused a whole lot of stress to bubble up inside. I also missed about half a night’s sleep, thanks to a...
by Mary Carver | Feb 18, 2016 | friendship
I think I met Dawn the weekend (in)courage was announced, at the She Speaks conference in 2009. But I’m not sure. And I don’t remember which conference we first ended up as roommates. I just know that, somewhere along the way, Dawn became one of my most...
by Mary Carver | Jan 5, 2016 | friendship
About a year ago I ran across a great post on Marie’s blog. She wrote about how she’d made a First Trimester Survival Kit for a friend, and I was SO BUMMED. Not because I needed one (nope, not me!), but because I had just visited a pregnant friend and...
