• Mar. 14th, 2013 Best Books for Baby Showers and Newborns

    If you’ve followed Out of the Boat for any length of time, you know that I have a serious addiction…to books! It began when I was quite young, was encouraged by my family, and as an adult, I’ve never attempted to get over it. It gets me in trouble occasionally…say when I stay up until [ read more ]

  • Mar. 12th, 2013 Are We Taking the “RunPee” Approach to the Bible?

    How many times have you been sitting in a theater—jumbo Coke and large popcorn forgotten—trying to concentrate on the movie while another part of your brain is analyzing each scene for an opportunity make a mad dash to the restroom.   Well, there’s an app for that. It’s called RunPee and it can make your movie [ read more ]

  • Mar. 7th, 2013 Write Undaunted!

    Every now and then I come to a place where I need to step away from books about writing and spend some time with books about living. The crazy thing is that once I owned up to the fact that “I AM A WRITER” I found that just about everything I read has a writing [ read more ]

  • Mar. 5th, 2013 When God Doesn’t Clear the Obstacles

    One of my favorite things about reading through the Bible is finding verses that I’ve never noticed before. A few weeks ago, I found a little nugget tucked away in Exodus. The Israelites are camped out at Mt. Sinai and God is promising them that when they go into Canaan, they will be victorious. There’s [ read more ]

  • Mar. 4th, 2013 Currents :: 03-03-13

    Books: Recently read Desperate by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson and Undaunted by Christine Caine . Both were excellent and I highly recommend them. Stay tuned for my reviews. Writing: Thinking about entering my first 1500 words in  the Frasier contest . Terrified. Scripture: Our church is going through a Bible reading program called Eat This Book . ( You can read about it here ). Each day we read 2-4 chapters and [ read more ]

  • Feb. 27th, 2013 A Different Kind of Margin

    I have not been in a “bloggy” mood lately, which is weird for me. I love this blog. I love opening up my laptop and watching my scrambled thoughts morph into something that makes sense. At least to me. Most of the time, I have three or four blog posts ready to go, but for the [ read more ]

  • Feb. 12th, 2013 The Pinterest Perplexity

    It can’t just be me. Please say it isn’t just me. I love Pinterest! I see the those little rectangles filled with beautifully staged food, artfully arranged mantles, adorably posed children, and I think… How hard could it be? Well, I have some homemade hand soap that feels like snot, a goofy looking Valentine’s Day [ read more ]

  • Feb. 8th, 2013 A New Home for Lily

    A few months ago, I introduced you to my friend Emily when she reviewed Life with Lily by Suzanne Woods Fisher and Mary Ann Kinsinger . Emily is a fantastic writer and a great lover of books and I was thrilled when she agreed to come back and review the second book in The Adventures of Lily Lapp series for us. Here’s a little info about A New Home for Lily: Lily Lapp is moving with her family to Pennsylvania to [ read more ]

  • Feb. 7th, 2013 Rumors of Water

    It’s the first Thursday of February, so I’m over at The Write Conversation today, talking about Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat . Come join the conversation!

  • Feb. 5th, 2013 Enough of Me

    There is not enough of me today.   Today begins in the deep dark When muscles lay heavy and frozen in the middle of a dream Driven away by the call of “Mommy” and unrecoverable, Even after the little one sleeps again in dry pajamas. The day looms long as I lay back on my [ read more ]