Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read Though I took driver’s ed when I was sixteen, I didn’t actually start driving until I was eighteen. By the time I was nineteen, I was driving myself to work and to social events, but every time I got behind the wheel, I was a wreck. I hate driving, I told people. But that wasn’t…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read Growing up in a large, lively church has many advantages, one of which is getting to see folks in leadership move on to lead elsewhere and in new ways. Before Christine was The Church Planting Wife, she was The College Pastor’s Wife at my home church. When she came back to Texas for a speaking…
Caroline Rose Sanders 7 Minute Read Several years ago, someone in my family brought a CD home to Eyrie Park and played it on our twenty-five year old stereo system in the living room. During the subsequent Christmas months, we played “Behold the Lamb of God” once or more a day. We were officially mesmerized with the music of Andrew Peterson. Shortly after that, my…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “..if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” -Jane Austen Jane Austen’s life was far from blissful, but she is one of the few classic authoresses to gain recognition for her writing during her lifetime, and her fame has only escalated since. In the 2007 biographical film, Becoming Jane, during the end scene Anne Hathaway…
Caroline Rose Sanders 9 Minute Read Rarely have I been so excited about one of our author interviews! Today I am pleased to introduce you to an authoress who hails from Sussex, England. At one time a Methodist minister who worked in many congregations as well as hospice and school chaplaincy, she now devotes herself to full-time writing. Penelope is the creative mind behind…
Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read In a day and age of internet marketing and one-click purchases, I’m surprised at how long it took me to get my hands on a copy of The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. As it turns out, the recommendation of a friend is still the best type of advertisement, and when multiple friends looked at me with…
Caroline Rose Sanders 8 Minute Read Once upon a time, I was a pretty legalistic teenage girl. I had read the books and the blogs and I was ready to “make a defense” against anyone who disagreed with me. There was only one way to educate your children, only one type of church to attend, only one dress code for modesty, only…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read Mornings can be described accurately with one word: routine. We’ve all said it at one point; that the sun sets and the sun rises and there’s nothing we can do about it. And yet, who can say they have never stood slack-jawed in the presence of a sunrise and thought, “I’ve never seen one like…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read In a large family, there is always a lot going on, but in many ways my family had been in a holding pattern for a couple of years. The changes we had hoped to see, the progress we had hoped to make, seemed like it would never come. I am happy to announce that 2014 had a…
Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read When I was a little girl of eleven years, I lived in a rental house in Bryan, Texas with my three siblings, my wonderful stay-at-home mother and our hardworking M.D. (which stands, of course, for My Dad). Though we were enjoying homeschooling, getting involved in a new church and playing in our backyard that passers-by…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.” –Madeleine L’Engle The little girl I keep on a weekly basis is three and-a-half years old. She has a bushel of golden curls, lively pink cheeks and a wonderful imagination. Her family just moved into a new home where, for the first time…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “I bet you and your siblings are really close, huh?” someone asks me yet again. “Yup!” I reply. “We are!” There’s not much use in going deeper into the topic with someone who can never relate. The moment they hear that we were homeschooled, they’ve already imagined us in our own personal one-room schoolhouse with…
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