I want to share with you one of my favorite weekly activities. For an hour and a half, I meet with a circle of women from differing faith walks. It’s called Women at the Well and is sponsored by Well for the Journey. Forgive me, but I’ve burned out on church committees and believe God […]
If the comments posted throughout this past week, and the responses I’ve received via my personal email are any indication, our co-authored boomer blog team has come out of the gate running! I personally want to thank my fellow Boomer Babe Bloggers as we’ve managed to get through our first week of learning a new […]
I’m so excited to have the opportunity to meet you. I wasn’t sure that this meeting would take place between you and I. You see, this past week a massive ice storm hit my city. Every blade of grass was captured in an inch or more of ice. Every tree and power line was draped […]
We’ve been writing this week of friendships, and of dreams. I am rich in friendships, but most of my friends are a lot like me. Our connections sprouted in the fertile common ground of PTA and Little League, church activities and carpools. Our lives, and our kids’ lives, have grown together, like vines.
Still, […]
I guess it’s no secret to anyone who has known me for more than 30 seconds . . . I can’t start my day without cappuccino. It’s a small price to pay to get my brain to function properly and sit at the computer for eight hours—waiting for some sublimely brilliant idea to pop into […]
I had been putting it off long enough. I was going to do it yesterday, but my husband said he really needed to use my office to put up some new property camera equipment or some such technical thing he has recently gotten interested in. He asked me to give him until noon. I complied, […]
Greetings here from Dotsie Bregel. Monday is my scheduled day to blog and I’m excited to begin the very first week our entire team of co-bloggers will begin posting. I encourage you to learn more about each of us by clicking on our photos on the left. We’d like to learn more about you, too, […]
Allison Bottke is the founder of Boomer Babes Rock, God Allows U-Turns, and the International SANITY Support Group Network. She is the author or editor of more than 23 non-fiction and fiction books. Her column for boomer women appears monthly in Christian Women Online (CWO).