Thursday Thought: Actively Still
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/28/2021 to
When I was twenty, I had my first experience with anaphylaxis. It’s a long story (and quite frankly one I always get a laugh out of telling so by all means ask me about it sometime), but essentially one moment I was eating a very tasty piece of
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Thursday Thought: Nowhere to Go But Forward
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/21/2021 to
There’s a maxim I have for myself in times of trouble: nowhere to go but forward. It’s a reminder not just that I’m not out of the fight, but also of the immediacy of my situation. It’s a reminder that I’ve needed more times than I care to count,
Top Reads of 2020: I Love You, Michael Collins
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/19/2021 to
My top reads of 2020 continue with Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s unexpectedly charming and poignant book I Love You, Michael Collins. Contrary to what I first thought when I first picked this book, this is not a love letter to the famed Irish
Thursday Thought: Real Rest
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/14/2021 to
It’s no secret that sometimes life just beats you down and exhausts you. I don’t think anyone will really dispute that fact. There are times in our life when everything will come crashing in and even the littlest add-on to our world will tip us
Thursday Thought: Faith over Feelings
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/7/2021 to
There are a thousand different buzzwords that float around through Christian speech. But if you were to make a word cloud of them, I’d be willing to bet that one of the biggest ones shown would be faith. It’s a word that we slap on coffee mugs,
Top Reads of 2020: Beverly, Right Here
Posted by Avalon Robinson on 1/5/2021 to
At the risk of sounding dangerously cliche, 2020 was quite a year to say the least. Fortunately, for everything else that happened, the world still turned and so did the pages of books. Let me tell you, there were some good books that crossed my