Category: Purely Personal

Merry Christmas from the Franks Family!

Flashback Friday: Moses, ‘Mandments, & Toenail Polish

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!   If you tuned in last week, you know that Advent has come to...

Flashback Friday: A Tree Grows in Durham

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!   Meticulous research has shown me that there are two kinds of people...

Sundays with Oprah

I have a story that I need to share with you, and no one else. (Let’s keep it right here, shall we?) I’m a Starbucks Gold Card member. That means that I spend way too...

Flashback Friday: Putting a Dent in Advent

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!   I’ll start this post with a couple of confessions: Confession #1: I...

Deck The Alls

Last weekend our family participated in a time-honored annual tradition that unites us with our kinsman around the globe. The annual tradition that heralds the holiday season. The annual tradition that puts gleams in eyes,...

In Solemn Stillness Lay

A couple of weeks ago Merriem and I were sitting in the living room, each on a laptop. She was reading me something off of Facebook, and I was eyeball deep in a spreadsheet I...

Flashback Friday: So Logical, It’s Scary

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!   My second born Austin has always been the sweetly-oblivious, doesn’t-always-mean-to-be-funny one in...

Flashback Friday: You Never Leave Middle School

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. Since this one was posted two Halloweens ago, we’ve wised up. We took the bull by the horns or the ghost by...

What Did Your Words Just Say?

Sunday. The grocery store. A quick stop on the way home from church to pick up snacks for small group. Small talk with the lady at the register. “How’s your day going so far?” And a...

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