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← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. beach life is hard 27 Sep '12 We’re at the beach this week, so I thought it would be fun to share some favorite beachy posts from the past. This was originally posted in July of 2008, the summer that our friends the Chinos were on…

← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. friday faves 14 Sep '12 Oh internet, you inspirational period piece, I love you. Let’s see what you had to offer this week! Why politicians lie, and why we don’t care: a very well-thought out piece on lying, why we listen to it, and a few…

← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. nineteen 14 Aug '12 I can’t believe I’ve been married for nineteen years. It sounds so much older than I am… Bryan’s favorite way to describe an anniversary is to compare the years to a person’s life. So this year, our marriage is a sophomore in…

← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. forever and for real 13 Aug '12 This spring I went to the funeral of an addict. It was strange, for me, experiencing him this way, because I met the man at a place in his life where he was long sober. A counselor, in fact,…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. enter the story 24 Dec '11 This past Wednesday night, our church had a community Christmas party called Christmas REMIX. We celebrated all over the building, and my part in it all was to help create an experience – Enter the Story – to help connect…

← → the help 19 Aug '11 As I walked into the movie theater, I thought: I shouldn’t have come without a black friend. I quickly brushed it off – the gathering happened quickly, the white women with me were good friends. Good people, dedicated to the idea of racial unity. It wasn’t that I…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. design: go team! 2 Mar '11 Recently, a precious friend asked me to design a logo for her relay team for the upcoming LR Marathon. I said yes immediately, knowing that JoBeth has a wonderful sense of style and would be great fun to collaborate with.…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. outside the box 30 Jan '11 Yesterday, in the gorgeous sunshine, we got some sweet cardboard out and hit the slopes. It was, for lack of a better word, SUPERFUN. You can see what it felt like RIGHT HERE. This is one of those times, admittedly,…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. this may be when I get the crickets 12 Jan '11 I’m about to do something I never do, at least here on this blog. I’m asking you to come to church. I’ve never done that here, at least not that I can recall. I rarely…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. this flame 6 Jan '11 What do we do when the loss is so great? When it is felt so keenly? When there is nothing we can do, nothing we can say to fill that void? I rage and cry. I say no to this event.…