Author: Dena Abramson Babb
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 16th
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 15th
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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Valentine’s Day – Real. Raw. Broken. Beautiful.
So Valentine’s Day. Commercial holiday? Totally. But do I still love any excuse to shower some love on my kids and husband? Totally. Sometimes showering love in real life, doesn’t always look like it does in my head. Today was one of those days. Today showering love looked like me holding my son as he…
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Life In Black & White: Lent 2018; February 14th – Ash Wednesday
For Christians, Lent is a time to reflect upon the question, “Who does God call me to be?” For the past few years a part of my Lenten discipline has been to participate in a photo-a-day challenge. The challenge is simple – each day reflect upon a word and capture an image that represents that…
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On The Bookshelf – What Should I Read Next
I am a fairly recent convert to the wonderful world of podcasts. For the longest time, it was a highly curated iTunes playlist that powered me through my pre-dawn workout time. But about a year ago, I found that no matter how many times I skipped a song or pressed shuffle on my music, the music…
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Life in Black & White – Used Books Are Growing a Reader
Back in November, I had a conversation with Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs. Darcy for her podcast What Should I Read Next. It was a ton of fun recording the episode and a ton of fun listening to the episode when it went live this morning. I am actually planning to write a full blog post…
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Living With Grace & Grit
Confession time… Lately, I have been really, really, really bad at life. All of the little stuff that makes long to-do lists – it’s just not getting done lately. Adulting is hard…Parenting is hard…Adulting and parenting together lately have me reeling. I’ve been running on fumes for almost a month – and there is way too much…
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Life in Black & White – $2 Motivation
My son is back in a cycle where his anxiety is causing him to want to opt out of anything which takes him outside of the house. That includes school. This morning he dug in pretty firmly when it was time to head out the door to school – getting him there took lots of…
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Between a Rock & a Hard Place
Originally posted on We're All A Little Broken: Parenting a child struggling with anxiety and panic is the personification of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Our days are marked not by hours, but by the spaces between anxiety fueled outbursts or shutdowns and panic attacks. We have very little control over…
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