It has been a while since I have submitted a book review for all of you here on My Living Canvas. This is not from lack of reading, just lack of having the discipline to sit down and pound out a review! So I am pleased to make a book review comeback with my review…
Category: Book Review
How to Have a Marriage Without Regret
I am a conservative. I am sure that any regular readers of this blog are already thinking “tell me something I don’t already know!” But I say this because, I feel that as of late I have come to be a little more conservative than I have ever been. I’m not talking politics, or social…
Stepping Heavenward, Cupcake Wars and the Next Food Network Star
So my silence pays tribute to these three… Stepping Heavenward, Cupcake Wars, and the Next Food Network Star. What can I say? Summertime has come upon me, a time when I only think of reading pool-side and fine dining table-side. I am embarrassed to say that I was unaware of Cupcake Wars until watching the…
Why Our Marriage Works
If you spend much time around Brian and me, you know that we have a passion for seeing young couples succeed in marriage – especially engaged couples. This is due in large part to the fact that our engagement period was a critical time of preparation that we believe rooted our marriage in a firm…
A Splash of Brightness at My Living Canvas
I have finally come to grips with a reality I have long fought to admit: I can only keep up with one blog! If I didn’t have a full-time job I might be able to better manage my multi-tasking blogging capabilities but I confess that for now this blog will have to be it. It…
For the Record…
Just in case the FTC actually knows my blog exists: I am an official book review blogger for Thomas Nelson publishing. They send me free books. I read the books and write what I think of the books on my blog and also on Amazon.com. Not all books I write about on my blog come…
Book Review: “Fearless” by Max Lucado
In a time in History where people have many things to fear, Max Lucado delivers a dose of wise counsel and biblical truth to help treat fear at its root. While Fearless deals with specific fears fueled by headlines in the local papers(such as terrorism and the global economic crisis), it also deals with generalized…
Book Review: “The Noticer” by Andy Andrews
Sometimes, All A Person Needs Is A Little Perspective Have you ever read a book that was just what you needed at just the time you needed it? Well for me, this weekend, that book was “The Noticer” by Andy Andrews. Work has been really hectic and stressful the past several weeks. I have been…
Upcoming Book Review: Fearless, by Max Lucado
I’ll admit that I can tend to be a ‘fraidy cat… alot. Scared of the dark, scared of things that go bump in the night, scared of spiders, scared of what people think of me, scared of bad things that may (and probably wont) happen. And the list goes on. This is why I am…
The Unlikely Disciple
My most recent read, (aside from rereading the last 2 books of the Harry Potter Series) is The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose. This is an intriguing memoir of a young freshman at Brown University who, in 2007, after a visit to Thomas Road Baptist Church, decided to go “undercover” at Liberty University for what…