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October Photo Re-cap: 3 Beautiful Insights

October Photo Re-cap: 3 Beautiful Insights

  This is a photo from a couple of October’s ago..but I love it because I’m leaning on my husband Curtis. We aren’t supposed to hold people on a pedestal, to regard them as a god, but I believe we are God’s hands and feet to each other. Once, as my husband Curtis and I […]

Color Me Bold

Color Me Bold

  Phewf..I’m exhausted from all the self-disclosure.  I wanted to keep it light this week with some fun fashion and beauty tips. First, I wanted to show you my do-it-yourself hair color. I was getting bored with my dark hair and tried a modified ombre look, with a semi-permanent dark burgundy color on top. This […]

RAW: Real, Angry, Weeping Part 2

Yesterday I posted RAW Part 1 (R is for real). This is Part 2. A is for angry: David and Job sometimes got angry at God. I imagine them shaking their fists up at him and screaming, “Why?!” In Leonard Sweet’s book, “What Matters Most:  How We Got the Point but Missed the Person”, Sweet […]

Where I'm From:  Learning to Live in the Dirt

Where I’m From: Learning to Live in the Dirt

I almost didn’t post this because I was afraid you’d think I write strangely and want to correct my grammar and punctuation.  But this is who I am:  words are like music, like lyrics to me. So bear with me as I wax poetic.  Today I need an outlet, but I know words don’t always […]

Less Is More: 5 Tips for Keeping Clothes Classy

Consider me, as my sweet, dear friend Sharon once said , “a nicer Christian version of the lady on What Not to Wear.”  Here’s what Stacy London and I might say to Christian gals:  A tight slinky cocktail dress and spike heels are not for church or the office. Jeans are not professional, unless you […]

Broken became Necessary

Maybe brokenness is necessary in order to appreciate beauty on this side of heaven. My daughter is writing an essay titled “The Beauty of Brokenness”. She hopes to point out that being “broken” in spirit or in body can be beautiful.  She found an article about an autistic boy who, because of his inability to […]

A little bit of Mexican flava-flave

The beauty of being bi-cultural (both Mexican and American) is that I have learned to borrow and adapt from both cultures to create unique traditions and recipes. I want to share skinny Mexican recipes with you, but the following recipe is definitely not skinny! Maybe later I will figure out how to make them less artery-clogging..but for […]

The Miley in All of Us

Miley Cyrus’ gyrating, scantily-clad image makes me seethe, but not at her. I watched a video to see what all the fuss was about and saw that she was just like me and you… This is what I would tell the Miley in all of us: You were born beautiful, destined for a beautiful life. […]