Chantel 2 Minute Read It’s November. For my corner of the globe, that means autumn is making its last hurrah. The last tints of orange are glowing on the trees, and the final harvest is being made. The nights are getting cold now. Twenty-fourteen is wrapping up and settling down to play out its last few moments before it…
Chantel 7 Minute Read I’ll always remember the exact moment I realized that the relationship I’d poured myself into for three and a half years was over. The end had been a long time coming. I’d seen the fracture lines. I’d felt down somewhere in the depths of my heart for more than a year that there would not be…
Chantel 2 Minute Read It’s the Fourth of July. Independence Day. A day we celebrate freedom here in the United States. But while I think of all the things I love about being free, while I let my heart soar with the fireworks and the music of my homeland, I can’t help but remember them. I don’t remember exactly the…
Chantel 9 Minute Read The moment you have a ring on your finger (and sometimes long before!), the entire world becomes sage with advice for you and your sweetie. Some of it is best let in one ear and out the other. Some of it you should laugh over. Some of it is borderline TMI! (Hey, it happens. Smile…
Chantel 2 Minute Read When I was a little girl, the highlight of my day was when my dad would come to tuck us in. Just before the lights were turned off for the night, I’d always plead for just one story from when he was a boy. More often than not, he was happy to oblige. And I…
Chantel 2 Minute Read I believe that gratitude can change your life. When I was ten years old, I picked up a little notebook and began a habit that has affected my life ever since. I called it my joy journal. In it I chronicled the bits and pieces of my ordinary days that made me smile, and reminded…
Chantel 3 Minute Read Do you love to read? What are some of the reasons you love books? This year, some of us here on Kindred Grace got together and shared a few reasons why we love books–and why we’re excited that March is finally here! (Click here to view the video if you can’t see the embedded version.) I…
Chantel 5 Minute Read I’ve worked from home off and on for the past eight years. I was working for other companies, putting in long hours over which I had little control. I loved working from home, but not being able to have my own schedule? It was exhausting. But last year, that finally changed. I started my own…
Chantel 2 Minute Read Every time the calendar rolls around from December to a brand new January, just about everyone who has a calendar starts to get ready to embrace a whole new 365 days. I’m not one to make a big deal of resolutions. I am all too keenly familiar with the sense of failure that comes with…
Chantel 2 Minute Read When I think about the holidays, one of the first things that come to mind are traditions. For me, traditions are the things that make holidays special. They were the things I looked forward to the most, and the things that made some of my best holiday memories. For me, some of my favorite holiday…
Chantel 3 Minute Read I’m an introvert. Sandwiched right in between two confident, outgoing siblings and with parents who didn’t know a stranger, I felt like the odd one of the family. It wasn’t that I didn’t like people. I did. I loved that growing up, our home was always filled with strangers who never seemed to mind the simple…
Chantel 3 Minute Read I love reality TV shows like “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race”, and it isn’t really because of the competition. It’s mostly because of the people. I sit back and enjoy watching the intricacies of human relationships develop and the good and the bad of personalities pushed to their limits. Personalities and how we interact as…
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