It’s a safe bet there aren’t any Amish women on Facebook. Besides that whole electricity thing, how would they have time for it? O, Facebook—how did I ever live without you? I discovered it’s beautiful blue logo during a season when I was working from home. I was...
How to Love Your Neighbor
Not Quite a Good Neighbor
I’ve spent the last several years getting to know my neighbors, and I’ve made plenty of blunders along the way. Here are my Top 10 mistakes I've made in my neighborhood, or How Not To Be A Good Neighbor: #10 Tell Them What They’re Doing Wrong When I returned to the...
Did you ever have one of those days? {weeks… months…}
Did you ever have one of those days? Days when your To Do list fades to a Wish List and eventually becomes a Bucket List? Days when you're still in your pajamas when the school bus brings the kids home? Days when you have breakfast at lunchtime and lunch at ...
Deep Laughter and Borrowed Sugar
I thought we were friends when we could see each other’s front yards. When I could walk across the street and sit on her porch steps on a southern summer day. But then state lines and travel schedules and soccer games and years proved that our relationship was...
Open Houses, Open Hearts
So many women made room on their Christmas calendars for their neighbors! They shared their hopes - and, yes, their fears - in our private Facebook group for Neighborhood Cafe Hostesses, where we share encouragement, advice, praises and prayer needs. Here are a few of...
Women Living Well Guest Post
I made a new friend last weekend - Courtney Joseph, author of Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids and Your Home (tuck a copy in a few stockings this Christmas!) and blogger at Women Living Well and Good Morning Girls. Courtney and I were...
Free Gift with Your Cafe Kit!
This Christmas, give a gift to your entire neighborhood! The Neighborhood Cafe Kit includes everything you need to invite your neighbors to an Open House, then invite them back for Bible study. Order by December 20 for Christmas delivery, and receive a free gift! Free...
Too Busy to Love Your Neighbors?
Don't worry... you don't have to add a neighborhood Open House to your hectic holiday To Do list! Put a Cafe Kit on your Christmas wish list, then relax. You've got plenty of time to make the perfect start to a brand new year in your neighborhood. Before December 20...
Thankful for My Weaknesses
This Thanksgiving, countless blessings will be shared over tables laden with turkeys. Sincere thanks for our families, our jobs, or our homes will be repeated by many grateful lips. You won't find many people thankful for their weaknesses. "I'm thankful for a tough...
Email Problems
It was encouraging to hear from so many people after the Neighborhood Cafe was featured on FamilyLife Today! I have replied to every email message I received, but I have heard that many people had difficulty sending a reply. If you sent me an email message and did not...










