Do you love Fall?  Oh – it’s my favorite season!  I love the cooling weather, the rain, the colors changing – the anticipation of the first snow! (If it WAS raining coffee, I’d play in the rain without an umbrella!) Over the summer, I had the blessing of getting to know Alyssa Avant better.  She’s posted here a few times and she has a ministry that reaches out to Moms and Moms of Girls, specifically.  Have you...

Sometimes, the opportunity to observe etiquette is just out of reach.  Or just impossible – Like my story from yesterday, for example…  But on most occasions knowing the proper way to behave in social situations is useful and necessary. Did you ever have the opportunity (or were forced to) attend any etiquette classes or programs while you were growing up? You know the kind I mean:  Balancing a book on your head.  Learning how...

Alyssa Avant, of Beauty By Design Ministries, has been a guest blogger here on occasion.  She and I have had several opportunities to connect through a variety of social networks like Twitter, A Woman Inspired Conference, and other places.  I always enjoy my conversations with her, and we are developing a really sweet online friendship. We are now venturing into talks about a partnership for a website and ministry working together.  She...

I enjoy Alyssa Avant’s writing and follow her blog, Beauty By Design.  She is a really sweet, Southern Christian lady and I enjoy the opportunity to share her with you.  Alyssa Avant is a Christian writer, speaker, and business owner whose mission is to turn the hearts of girls towards God. She combines her experience in the modeling industry and as youth and children’s director to reach out to girls pressured and confused by the...

Reading is one of my favorite things.  Reading the written word can be life changing – especially when crafted by wordsmiths such as Max Lucado, Emilie Barnes, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beth Moore…  The written word is so powerful and enriching – on a different level than the spoken word. Writing is another of my favorite things. In fact, I think it must have evolved from my love of reading. I...