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← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. beach life is hard 27 Sep '12 We’re at the beach this week, so I thought it would be fun to share some favorite beachy posts from the past. This was originally posted in July of 2008, the summer that our friends the Chinos were on…

← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. forever and for real 13 Aug '12 This spring I went to the funeral of an addict. It was strange, for me, experiencing him this way, because I met the man at a place in his life where he was long sober. A counselor, in fact,…

← → © 2012 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. nineteen 14 Aug '12 I can’t believe I’ve been married for nineteen years. It sounds so much older than I am… Bryan’s favorite way to describe an anniversary is to compare the years to a person’s life. So this year, our marriage is a sophomore in…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. enter the story 24 Dec '11 This past Wednesday night, our church had a community Christmas party called Christmas REMIX. We celebrated all over the building, and my part in it all was to help create an experience – Enter the Story – to help connect…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. design: go team! 2 Mar '11 Recently, a precious friend asked me to design a logo for her relay team for the upcoming LR Marathon. I said yes immediately, knowing that JoBeth has a wonderful sense of style and would be great fun to collaborate with.…

← → the help 19 Aug '11 As I walked into the movie theater, I thought: I shouldn’t have come without a black friend. I quickly brushed it off – the gathering happened quickly, the white women with me were good friends. Good people, dedicated to the idea of racial unity. It wasn’t that I…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. outside the box 30 Jan '11 Yesterday, in the gorgeous sunshine, we got some sweet cardboard out and hit the slopes. It was, for lack of a better word, SUPERFUN. You can see what it felt like RIGHT HERE. This is one of those times, admittedly,…

← → © 2011 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. this may be when I get the crickets 12 Jan '11 I’m about to do something I never do, at least here on this blog. I’m asking you to come to church. I’ve never done that here, at least not that I can recall. I rarely…

← → © 2010 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. here's your one chance, fancy… 5 Sep '10 Friday before last, I got to tour the new (fancy!) Kroger Marketplace out on Chenal Parkway. (Full disclosure: I was invited by a Kroger PR person, I had a great time and was plied with wonderful samples of…

← → © 2010 Sarabeth Jones. All rights reserved. thanksgiving therapy 25 Nov '10 There are years when being grateful is easy; when the drop-down list of answers is long. This year does not feel that way. Instead, it feels like I cannot find my list at all, cannot see my way to it. Not…