Julie Lyles Carr

We welcomed my youngest brother and his family to the 21st century last week. They now have a web cam and can video call us on Skype. Welcome to the Net, Baby Brother. My brother and his wife have graciously provided me two nieces and a nephew to add to my collection of Aunt Sissy fans (Aunt Sissy would be…
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Want to make your kid become more mature in 45 minutes? I have cracked the code. First, have the orthodontia appliances they’ve been sporting for the last five years, the braces and the head gear and the palatal expander and bands and all that jazz, have all that stuff removed. Then, brush out their waist length hair, the style they’ve…
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A wonderful group of blog friends began at the first of the year to each post a little something about our word for the year. We agreed that we would post another iteration of our year’s word at the end of each month…and here we are, a quarter of the way through the year with our third edition of this…
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I do not write alone. I barely visit the restroom alone. And if I were…
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Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Mark 4:18-19 It’s an amazing thing to me, the way verses can sneak into the Bible. You read a passage a few times, you think…
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