Holidays are the perfect opportunity to gather friends and neighbors at the Turquoise Table. One of our favorite neighborhood holiday traditions is the annual Front Yard People Eggstravaganza. What’s an Eggstravaganza, you ask? A neighborhood egg decorating party. Hosting a neighborhood egg decorating party is simple. It’s a great way to meet new neighbors, too. Huge bonus, mamas. All the…
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Stories From the Table: Fostering Community Abroad
Katha is a member of our Turquoise Table community and recently reached out to us with a story we want to share with you. While there’s not a place for a picnic table where she lives in Germany, Katha is creating community right where she lives. We loved her heart for gathering so much, we sent her a turquoise tablecloth! There’s…
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One Thing That Makes Hospitality More Meaningful and Less Work
I’m thrilled to have Shelly Miller join us today. Shelly is a dear friend, author, and Sabbath keeper. Last fall, Shelly joined me at the Turquoise Table where we chatted about the connection between having a Sabbath heart and practicing the gift of hospitality. Rest and hospitality go hand in hand, but sometimes that can feel counterintuitive. Shelly, who lives in…
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Barefoot Hospitality
My neighbor and I walked slowly side-by-side down our street to her house. She opened the front door and motioned with her hand to a rack neatly lined with shoes. “Please,” she said in a heavy accent I have grown to understand. I slipped my shoes off, acutely aware of my need for a pedicure. This was the first time…
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Share the Love
Heading down her street for a brisk evening walk, Melissa saw the elderly woman, a neighbor she’d never met. Melissa had been reading the book “Anything” by Jennie Allen, and was mulling one of Allen’s messages – Reach Out. She, her husband, Christopher, and their four children had recently moved to Belton, Texas, from their longtime home in North Carolina,…
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Freebie Friday: Loving My Actual Life by Alexandra Kuykendall
Hi friends! Hope you didn’t miss our Freebie Friday series too much last week. I promise that this week’s Turquoise Table giveaway book is more than worth the wait to make up for it! This week we bring you… Loving My Actual Life by Alexandra Kuykendall Alexandra is a friend of mine and I wish each of you could sit down with her in person…
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