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Hello! Welcome to the month of November! If I had to choose one word from children’s literature to describe my week, it would be “blustery.” We had a good dose of rain and wind this week. It felt like autumn had finally well and truly arrived. Today is the last day to enter our contest…

Last week I visited Boston in the Fall (thank you, VeggieTales, for that particular turn of phrase), and I remain convinced that New England in October is a foretaste of the Kingdom.

It’s the baseball post-season and my team (the Detroit Tigers) just made it through the Wild Card round. To do so, they defeated my dear friend (and SW contributor) Laura’s team (the Cleveland Guardians). And if they win the next round, they could potentially be up against my dear friend (and SW managing editor) Kelly’s…

I spent the day in back to back (to back) meetings and found myself scrambling at the end of the day to fit in a few small things that needed to get shipped. I work on an amazing church team with leaders that really care about developing the staff, so every single meeting today was…

My cat is scared of cockroaches—he literally jumps and runs away most of the time. But last night, Lord Peter Wimsey’s ancient hunting instincts (long-dormant) awoke, and he cornered one. Lord Peter firmly believes all killing or removal of critters should be my jurisdiction. His responsibilities end at cornering. So he cornered it.  Then it…

I have been delighting in cool mornings, low humidity, and sunny days this week. The weather is lulling me into a false sense of security, of course. I’ve lived in the American South for over a decade now and I know that September is still summer here, but I’ll take this week’s lies and revel…

I have been delighting in cool mornings, low humidity, and sunny days this week. The weather is lulling me into a false sense of security, of course. I’ve lived in the American South for over a decade now and I know that September is still summer here, but I’ll take this week’s lies and revel…

I spent the afternoon out at the Whitewater Center near Charlotte today, enjoying a staff activity and tackling the rapids. It was so much fun, and even more fun to watch some of my coworkers who had been very nervous to try but had signed up anyway. They had so much fun and more than…

I saw a post recently about “mental autumn” and found myself ready for such a thing again. It may mean turning the AC real low and lighting a spiced candle, but I think I can pretend enough to make it mental autumn, right? Anyone looking for bouquets of sharpened pencils on the horizon? Around the…

It’s—um—still raining. Well, not right at this moment, but I’m beginning to wonder if the atmosphere still has any water left in it. Perhaps it has collapsed in on itself and we’re weeks away from an extinction-level event. Or maybe I’ve been reading too much science fiction lately. That’s also possible. Around the Web Redeeming…