Author Archives: lynnhouse

My boys and I just returned from our annual spring break trip to Southwest Florida. This year ranked among my favorite. No longer am I bogged down with strollers, pack and plays and car seats. The boys pack their own toys or electronics for the plane, which alleviates my job of finding ways to entertain [...]

If you received a post from me last week by the same title, I apologize. I thought I was scheduling the post for a later date. Here’s what I started to say. I have a self-worth issue. Sometimes. Most of the time. There are times when I realize that I am worthy of love. And [...]

We live in a world of sound bites. Our news, whether it comes across our T.V.s, computers, phones, tablets or our car radios, is delivered in small increments. I’ll admit, if a friend’s Facebook status is over a couple of sentences long, I don’t read it unless the first few words grab my attention. It’s [...]

A preamble of sorts: As I talk about the very personal story of my divorce, there are times when I refer to the pain brought on by my ex-husband. Please know that I have several of my own mistakes to own and while I talk about how his actions affected me, I also understand that [...]

I signed a lease on an art studio today. Well, one-third of an art studio. I’ll be sharing it with my friend, Quincy Owens. Thing is: Quincy’s a real artist. As in he sells real art to real patrons  — in our town and other towns with names like New York City. I admired his [...]

I’m going to do it. I’m going to do one of those things I said I would never do. I’m going to start a post with the definition of a word. Ahhck! I feel so uncreative. So weak. So … so insipid. But here it goes. The word is clamor. Dictionary.com defines clamor as: noun [...]

My college friends used to let my boyfriends in on a secret. “Lynn’s a cheap date. Take her to an airport to watch planes taking off and landing, and she’ll be yours.” I’m pretty sure that some of those guys thought “being yours” meant something entirely different than my friends had intended. Sure, the excitement [...]

We just returned home from a ten-day journey that took us through eight states. With our Suburban packed with suitcases, sleeping bags, a couple of cots, two guitars and an amp,  some snacks, a few electronics, my four boys, and my two teenage nephews, we headed west to Wilderness Ranch, a Young Life backpacking camp [...]

I read through Facebook posts lately and I wonder if we’re really as calloused as we appear. We write about our dinners or the weather or March Madness. All the while, people in Japan have lost their livelihoods, their homes, their families, even their lives. In light of such tragedies, our lives can seem so small, [...]

That’s a depressing title, isn’t it? Sorry if you came here for a laugh or silly entertainment. Some of my posts are heavy, and I assure you this is one of them. I haven’t spoken about my divorce much. Mostly because the topic cannot be contained in a post. But, there’s something about my divorce [...]