Kristin Schell
On the banks of the River Liffey sits the oldest independent bookshop in Dublin. The Winding Stair greets strangers, foreigners toting passports from here and there, with welcome and wonder. Small and peculiar, the landmark—named after the Yeats poem— offers an eclectic collection of new and second-hand books to a clientele as diverse as its titles. Downstairs amidst the pages,…
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Have you ever met someone and immediately felt they had a special something, that je ne sais quoi sparkle about them? That’s the way I felt when I first met Kate. Funny thing is that we still haven’t met in real life (12 days until we do!), but we are kindreds— crazy for Jesus, family, food, and friends. I could tell…
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A text from a friend this week: I ❤ ur 31 days but I hate to cook. 🙁 My reply: then don’t 🙂 {What is it with women and emoji?} 5 Ways to Offer Outrageous Hospitality {without cooking!} All these ideas came from a walk through my neighborhood yesterday. Real people doing their thing. 1. Meet a need. My neighbors installed a…
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Remember way back to last week when I shared I wanted to be like Ludmilla? I wondered if I could place a plaque next to the entrance of our home ~ Embassy of the Kingdom of Heaven? Well, I’m pretty sure that this week, I’m more qualified to slap a bumper sticker on the minivan that reads Queen…
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Last night after supper — frozen taquitos from Whole Foods, by the way — the Littles and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. The long awaited cool front, there’s never really a cold one in Austin, blew in over the weekend the Littles declared an after supper walk a must. “It’s a tradition!” one of them shouted already…
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A couple years ago I attended the Verge Network Conference right here in Austin. The mission of the conference that year was Discipleship. I sat in awe as speaker after speaker filled my cup. One of the speakers, Jo Saxton, left such an impression on me I quote a single line from her speech almost daily. In her talk An…
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