by Leeana Tankersley | May 11, 2010 | Home Page
My dear friend, Joanna, keeps a “Gratitude Journal.” Love the concept. Life certainly has it’s deficit moments, but abundance is always present, too. Sometimes you have to look under a rock to find it, or tear up the carpet, or search between the...
by Leeana Tankersley | May 6, 2010 | Home Page
I met Rachel Held Evans a few weeks ago at the Calvin College Writing Festival. She’s got a very vital blog community, and her first book — Evolving in Monkey Town — releases this month from Zondervan. I’ve been following Rachel’s blog...
by Leeana Tankersley | May 3, 2010 | Home Page
After traveling last week for work, Steve took today off to hang out with me and the babes. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. We started the day by taking a yoga class at the brand new Y that just opened down the street from our house (and by “our house,” of course...
by Leeana Tankersley | Apr 30, 2010 | Home Page
So, I’m only about halfway done with Lit by Mary Karr, but I just had to take a break from my voracious inhaling of this book to tell you how much (and why) I like it. Karr’s story (which includes just about every kind of trauma you can think of) is raw,...
by Leeana Tankersley | Apr 28, 2010 | Home Page
Earlier this year, I did a video interview with Craig Spinks of www.recycleyourfaith.com. Craig and his wife, Sara, are traveling around the country (they’ve been on the road 7 months!) capturing all kinds of stories of faith. They want to tell the stories that...
by Leeana Tankersley | Apr 26, 2010 | Home Page
I spent Friday and Saturday with the most amazing group of women from a church up in Bakersfield. The two-day retreat was themed around Found Art, and we talked about discovering beauty in foreign places, experiencing God in foreign places, and caring for our souls in...