Today I'm guest-posting at Christianity Today's Women's Blog: Her.menutics. The piece is called "One Thousand Gifts, Reconsidered: A second take on Ann Voskamp's bestseller about gratitude." As if you really wanted to hear me go on and on about One Thousand Gifts some more... Please? Don't you want me to go on and on a little more? Read it here. Love, Micha … [Read more...]
‘Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle’ (Or, Why One Thousand Gifts is changing my life)
August 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Just a little practical bookish sort of wish list
July 27, 2011 By 3 Comments
I’ve been posting a lot of book lists lately. Maybe it’s because I’ve actually had time while I’m staying with my parents (and before that, my mother-in-law's) to think about books and consider how I’m going to spend the extra brain time I’ll have when we get settled in Austin and we don’t have commitments yet. (It probably won’t last long, so I’d better take advantage of it.) Here are the books on my non-literary wish list: Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our … [Read more...]
We Need a Horse and how to be weirdly grateful
July 21, 2011 By 4 Comments
Yesterday, my dear friend Katie (in San Francisco) sent me a package with two letters, a magazine, and three lovely children’s books (I mean incredibly beautiful, you’ve never seen a book so beautifully made) in the mail. Her husband works for McSweeney’s, the eccentric, progressive publishing house and magazine publisher. Really, McSweeney’s is a literary movement, but that’s beside the point. The point is that her husband has been working lately on children’s books. They’re … [Read more...]
Summer Reading!
July 11, 2011 By 7 Comments
Dear people who don’t mind hearing about the details of my life (why do you read this blog? I can’t figure it out.): You have heard me complain for too long about how I missed summer. Well, I’m here to say, my complaining is done. I’m in summer. And it’s hot and full of sunshine and pools and oceans and mosquitoes and fireflies and little boys who stay outside all morning/afternoon and who always need a bath at the end of the day because they smell like bug spray and chlorine and … [Read more...]
The books that shaped you?
July 8, 2011 By 8 Comments
While I’m on vacation, I thought it might be fun to ask this question again. I'd love to know the answer you have, especially you newbies we're still getting to know. This was first published on September 2, 2010… Tuesday, Helen Lee at Gifted for Leadership asked her readers (mostly women in positions of leadership in the Church) which books have most shaped their lives. Her question was in response to a similar one asked of the Twitter followers of two marketing consultants and … [Read more...]
Restoration: The Sword of the Lord and Me
June 13, 2011 By 8 Comments
I remember the first time I left a family conversation, excused myself to the bathroom and cried. I think I was in 7th or 8th grade. Great Uncle Charlie had stopped by my Memaw’s house for a cup of coffee and a chat. I don’t know why I was there and I don’t remember anything about the conversation. All I remember is that my grandmother’s brother used the “N” word several times without blinking an eye. And no one around me seemed phased. But I, two generations removed, with only a … [Read more...]
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