My first Compassion International advocate presentation: An unexpected lesson
And the lesson was learned by me. Yesterday, as I packed the things I would need for the Vacation Bible School I was going to today, my eldest, Susan, asked to tag along. At first, I didn’t think it a good idea. I didn’t want to be a mom on duty, I just wanted to [...]
July 17, 2008
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: Compassion International, girls, Indonesia, poverty, Susan · Posted in: Believing, Compassion International, Learning, Thinking
Elizabeth Gilbert, Rhonda Byne, Oprah and Christians (no, this is not a really bad joke)
A reader left this comment on my post regarding Eat, Pray, Love: One Womans Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. Let me put the comment in context so you don’t have to follow a link to my original post and wade through all the old comments. The commenter is talking [...]
June 9, 2008
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Tags: books, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Indonesia, memoir, nonChristians, Reading · Posted in: Believing, Reading
Shiny everyday American: Relief Journal post
I like shoes. Strappy sandals, kitten heels, flats and worn-in sneakers. It’s all good. So off to the mall I went (without kids!) to scope out the spring selections. I walked through Bloomingdale’s, hoping for a great sale. But what I found I didn’t expect. Click here to read the rest of my post at [...]
May 30, 2008
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Tags: Indonesia, Relief Journal · Posted in: Relief Journal
Relief blog post: journaling Indonesia
I’m at Relief Journal again today with the continuing saga of life in Indonesia. And it’s a saga, my Internet peeps. Today’s post has a smidgen of soap opera, which is scary because I never watch that nonsense. Except for a tiny lapse in judgment in high school when I would rush home to watch… [...]
May 23, 2008
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Tags: Indonesia, journaling, Relief Journal, travel, Writing · Posted in: Believing, Relief Journal, Writing
Relief Journal post no. 1
My first post at Relief Journal is up today. It’s about living in Indonesia, something I’ve never written about before. I hope you check it out.
May 17, 2008
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Tags: Indonesia, Relief Journal, Writing · Posted in: Relief Journal
Eat, Pray, Love: a travel memoir
Update (6/9/08) For my latest comments on Gilbert’s book, follow this link. I don’t read memoirs, I absorb them. I begin to read and I don’t quit until I’ve come up out of the last word of the last chapter. I get easily involved with the author’s experiences; I hate to put the book aside [...]
August 15, 2006
· Monica Brand · 15 Comments
Tags: books, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Indonesia, me, memoir, non-fiction, Reading · Posted in: Reading
