When Love Looks Like Sixty Cents

I counted my change last night. After I scoured the living room floor and the bottom of my purse, I had $2.27 in quarters, nickels, and pennies. I also had an overpowering craving for a cinnamon roll.

My husband is well-acquainted with my frequent compulsions for milkshakes and cookie dough and chocolate and the like. He sweetly gave in and agreed to drive down the road with me in search of cinnamon rolls.

Pursuing Purpose & Finding Peace

Do you know that feeling of overwhelm? When you have an infinite to-do list scrolling through your mind over and over, like a stock ticker at the bottom of a television screen? When you’re furiously rushing through a task just to reach the next one and mark it off the mental list? I experience this chronically.  

Last week, though, I think I finally found the “off” button for that to-do ticker. 

My Top Five Podcasts

What if I told you that sometimes I look forward to deep cleaning the kitchen, scrubbing the bathroom, and weeding the garden?

It’s true, but only because I trick myself into loving those chores.

While my hands are busy working at something they can do by rote, my mind craves a challenge. Listening to a good podcast makes all the difference.

My iPhone has greeted and deleted a slew of different podcast subscriptions. I currently subscribe to twenty separate podcasts, but there are only a few for which I most impatiently await new episodes. 

Here are my top five favorite podcasts.