Archive for the ‘Thinking’ Category
As of 11:05 am
I will be forty years old. Can some one please explain to me how the heck this happened?? Because in my head, I’m still not a day over 35 25. More later; for now I’m doing minimal house chores, taking the kids to the park where I’m going to chat with another home schooling mom [...]
April 28, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
8 Comments
Tags: me, more than you need to know, things I want to remember · Posted in: Living, Thinking
Walls
Spring cleaning today. I wiped clean the walls in the family room, now free from a winter’s worth of wood stove dust. The walls, butter yellow, a color I painstakingly selected years ago. In the hallway, a dime-sized hole in that yellow Sheetrock. Each time I walk past that blip of an imperfection, my spirit [...]
April 26, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: Compassion International, poverty · Posted in: Believing, Compassion International, Thinking
Twitter is the new blog
I really believe that; Twitter is now the most popular way for online women to communicate to a large audience. As you know, I took an extended leave from Twitter and Facebook from late February to April 9. Not clicking over to Facebook was easy; Twitter I missed terribly. A few times I thought of [...]
April 13, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: me, more than you need to know, Twitter · Posted in: Blogging, Internet culture, Thinking
A Woman Inspired price discount and (wow!) my video
First of all… My little rambling-thoughts video about my mom and her story has been selected for display at the A Woman Inspired conference website. Go, me! Seriously, what an honor that goofy me could make a video that speaks into the hearts of women. This is exactly the kind of blogging I want to [...]
March 24, 2009
· Monica Brand · 2 Comments
Tags: blogkeeping, video · Posted in: Believing, Thinking, Women's issues
Lent: Week Two
Here it is the second week of Lent and I sense I’m doing it wrong. The guide I downloaded from Christine Sine’s Godspace blog keeps mentioning joint activities and discussions to do together as a group. I have no group. Admitting to that is hard and saddening. I am a social person by nature. I [...]
March 4, 2009
· Monica Brand · 4 Comments
Tags: celebrations, Lent, me · Posted in: Believing, Thinking
Understanding the choices of Nadya Suleman
My first reaction to hearing about Nadya Suleman and her eight babies: America is great! This is a country where if you have the cash, then there is a doctor waiting to make it happen. (No, I’m not particularly proud I tend to lean toward sarcasm; I’m working on improving in that area.) So why [...]
February 26, 2009
· Monica Brand · 14 Comments
Tags: culture, Jesus, mothering · Posted in: Thinking, Women's issues
