by Emily P Freeman | Jul 20, 2012 | for your weekend
May your weekend be filled with friends, family and endless reasons to launch into the silent laugh. May your people continue to get you and love you with all of your jokes, your worries and your neurosis. And if you have a sister, or a cousin, or a life-long friend...
by Emily P Freeman | Jul 19, 2012 | Book Club, Grace for the Good Girl
It’s hard to read your own book, kind of like hearing your own voice on voicemail – you can’t pay attention to the message because do I really sound like that?! Last night, though, I just sat and read like someone else wrote it. I cried twice. And...
by Emily P Freeman | Jul 16, 2012 | art, faith, inspiration
The store smells strong of paint and wood. Adele plays from a speaker in the back and I have a compulsion to touch everything I see. Story is thicker than the paint in the air. The shop owners greet me when I turn the corner. She waves from behind the desk, steps...
by Emily P Freeman | Jul 12, 2012 | Book Club, Grace for the Good Girl
I memorized the first half of Mary’s Magnificat on accident when I was in college. I was in the midst of my short-lived song-writing phase and read the portion in Luke 1 where Mary meets with her cousin Elizabeth. It’s written in verse, and is sometimes...
by Emily P Freeman | Jul 10, 2012 | breathe, lifestyle
When I am worried or in danger of becoming obsessed with myself, I need outside air like a drug- to drink my coffee on the back deck; to sit on the bench in the front yard; to lean back on the warm concrete at dusk; to chat with a neighbor on our painted porch steps....
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