Posts by Lisa-Jo

HomePartner With Us 250. WE’RE BACK! Powered by RedCircle We are back after a five-month hiatus, and we have so much to tell you. About rest. About work. About creativity and parenting teenagers and the very Big Milestones coming up for us this year. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed and overcommitted, this conversation between two…

HomePartner With Us 249. The Last One (for now) Who needs rest from creating? In the beginning, God didn’t just rest from work but He rested from creating. After burn out,  Lisa-Jo and Christie wrap their arms around us and give us grace to pause.  Whether you’re entering a season of creation or needing a…

HomePartner With Us 248. Seven Basic Tools for Ordinary Living This is a story about how to make ordinary life a little bit easier. LJ and Christie laugh, talk, and recommend equipment for ordinary living: shoes, headphones, jasmine!, and more. Also, we learn that Lisa-Jo has never heard the memorable 1980s advertising slogan: “Calgon, take…

HomePartner With Us 247. Encountering Goodness What does it mean to pursue goodness? Have we slighted it? Let’s stay rooted in our deep and worthy ordinary virtues even though they aren’t on a typical list for new year’s resolutions. “I’d really like to be like Ted Lasso.” Do you agree with Christie on this? Ted…

HomePartner With Us 246. These Are the Books That Made Us This is a story about a book Christie loved and Lisa-Jo did not. Actually, here are stories about quite a few books! Because these are the childhood favorites that helped make us the women we are. In this week’s conversation, we discover just how…

HomePartner With Us 245. You’re Allowed Everyday Extravagances This is a story about painting a dining room nearly charcoal black. And the hundreds of hours it took. This is a story about how it turned a dining room into an everyday extravagance. This week Lisa-Jo and Christie remember the great farmhouse dining room painting saga…

HomePartner With Us 244. Eat This! If you’re like us then you also associate summer with certain foods. And therefore with certain memories. These are the foods and memories that have shaped our summers for decades. We hope listening leaves you hungry. And also, makes you remember. The tastes of your favorite summers and the…

HomePartner With Us 243. How to Leave a Critical Review This is the story of our first critic. Once upon a time in a coffee shop in Chicago when Christie was a brand new English Literature professor a stranger asked her a question about reading and writing. He was pointed. He had opinions. He was…

HomePartner With Us 242. You Called Me WHAT Now?! This is the story of the labels people pin to us – to our bodies or our lives, or our families or our homes – and that we sometimes start to believe must be true. This is the story of starting to say that we will…

HomePartner With Us 241. We Were Wrong About Marie Kondo This is the story of the secret shame we all carry about our houses. And the one thing that can free you from it. This is a story about Christie’s house Maplehurst being adrift in a sea of mud and construction and the pungent smell…