by Kelly Greer | Jan 12, 2016 | Consilium Community
(A little tribute to Adele and the never ending melody replaying inside my head as of late!) Maybe, like me, you find yourself on the other side of the calendar year way too quick, long before you finished wrapping up the year, or even wrapping all of the Christmas...
by Christin Ditchfield | Jan 5, 2016 | Consilium Community
Years ago I ran across a poignant cartoon by artist Cathy Guisewite. In the first panel, a woman held up a sparkly ring. The caption read, TO DO: 1955. There was only one thing on the woman’s list: “Marry well.” In the second panel, her hand had become a fist. The...
by Diane W. Bailey | Dec 31, 2015 | Consilium Community, Consilium Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst is our guest on The Consilium with Diane Bailey and Holly Barrett. In this episode we discovered all three of us have been a single mother at one point in life. Crystal has written a book with her dad, Tony Evans, titled, Kingdom Woman: Embracing...
by JeanneDamoff | Dec 29, 2015 | Consilium Community
“Making the decision to have a child . . . is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ” Elizabeth Stone To become a mother is to risk heartbreak. Or, rather, to guarantee it. Sure, there are also joys so intense you feel like...
by Sandra Heska King | Dec 8, 2015 | Consilium Community
My two-year-old daughter was missing. I’d been sitting in a lawn chair under the Georgia pines that summer morning while I watched her play in the driveway and must have dozed off again. I ran around the yard and through the house and back outside calling for her—not...