by Charity Singleton Craig | Feb 2, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
Over the weekend, I slipped away from puppy care (read: indentured servitude!) just long enough to go to church then to the gym to run a couple of miles on the treadmill. Since Tilly came to live with me, I haven’t had the time to run as usual, and so it was a...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 26, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
How did we get here? Ann Kroeker asks in the third chapter of Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families. In other words, what led us to think that busy is better? I’ve asked myself that a lot over the years. There was one particular stretch when I...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 18, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
When I stopped at the art museum for a couple of hours on New Year’s Eve day, I had chapter 1 from Ann Kroeker’s book, Not So Fast, in mind. I remembered her story from “What Are We Missing out On?” of her family’s hurried tour through...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 12, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
Over and over again as I was reading Ann Kroekers’s book, Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families, I would think to myself, if I had children, I would definitely do that. Or, if I were married, I know we would make that a priority. Things like...