by Emily Wierenga | Sep 20, 2013 | achievement, belief, book giveaway, career, faith, food, Hattie Kauffman, journalism, memoir, Native American, news anchor, poverty
Hattie Kauffman made history as the first Native American journalist to ever file a report on a national network evening news broadcast and has over two decades of experience as an on-camera correspondent and news anchor. A speaker and writer, Hattie is a member of... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 18, 2013 | brain cancer, identity, mum, self-worth, swimming
Mum went swimming the other day. She wore a brand-new bathing suit and it’s been three years since she recovered from brain cancer and I don’t ever remember her swimming before.My brother says she has. He says I just don’t remember and he says this with his face bent... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 16, 2013 | (in)courage, #mominthemirror, beauty, book giveaway, create, creator, femininity, forgiveness, life, love, sexuality, women
Dear Daughter of Eve,You carry the seed of life in you. You are muscle and mind and heart. You walk with the calm of the hills. There is beauty in your gait, in the way you hold your shoulders, in your bending to hold a child close, in your rising for those who are... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 13, 2013 | Awake, boldness, book, courage, girl, idleness, justice, life, Noel Brewer Yeatts, numbness, pain, poverty, rape, woundedness
It’s my pleasure to welcome Noel Brewer Yeatts, vice president of the faith based humanitarian organization World Help–whom I’ll be traveling with to Rwanda and Uganda in January–to my humble blog, to give away her new book, Awake: Doing a... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 11, 2013 | #duckdynasty, #imperfectprose, cancer, Duck Dynasty, family, hunting, kay, love, marriage, phil, prayer, Robertsons, squirrels, vows, wedding, willie
Please note, I do not approve of guns or hunting or squirrels being killed. My father in law, however, does.So when you’re sitting down at a table beneath the trees five hundred yards from your inlaws’ house and it’s Sunday, and you’ve said...