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Knowing Our Neighbors: A response to the Austin Bombings

I’m sitting at my kitchen desk, watching through the window as a FedEx truck pulls up to my neighbor’s house. Normally I wouldn’t give pause to a package being left in plain sight on their doorstep, but today is different. Today, the serial bomber in Austin, Texas is dead. The terror of deadly packages and unsuspecting tripwire, however, still looms…
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Living Prepared, Not Perfect: Hospitality

Oh Hey 2018! I see you there with all your promise and possibility. Shiny new journals and healthy new habits and bold resolutions. You temptress, you. I’m not ready. Nope. And, I’m not going to fight it either. As my friend Lara Casey says, “There’s nothing magical about January 1.” I have a celebration chaos hangover. Maybe you feel this…
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Gather Small & Love Deep

Ordinary Moments Matter I started using the phrase “gather small and love deep” long before I fully realized what it meant. Intuitively I knew the Turquoise Table was perfectly designed for four to six people—small gatherings. And being at the table, facing each other and sitting side by side, would allow an intimacy to listen and have real conversations. What…
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Front Yard People #TurquoiseTuesday

Love invites us to move outside into the neighborhood. The day the Turquoise Table went missing, my phone was flooded with texts from concerned friends. We were out of town for the Fourth of July holiday, and our neighbors knew we weren’t home to see that the table had mysteriously disappeared from our front yard. “You’ve been robbed!” “Pranksters have…
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Coffee Date #TurquoiseTuesday

Sit a Spell My grandmother had the sweetest expressions. When neighbors would drop by for a visit, I remember hearing her invite guests to join her in the living room. “Come, sit a spell,” she would say. As a young child, I was curious by the invitation to sit a spell. Maybe Grandma and her friends knew magic? These days…
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Pre-Order The Turquoise Table

The official countdown is on! The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard releases just one month from today on June 6th. To celebrate, we’ve created a bundle of FREE downloads just for you. When you pre-order your copy of The Turquoise Table, you’ll receive: “Welcome Home” pancake mix recipe — a great gift for a…
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