By Monica Watkins
Today, I began a temporary assignment at a company I’ve worked for previously. They were having a brief afternoon gathering. It was the exciting, I suspect long-awaited, unveiling of the wonderful “Secret Santa”.
Ahhh, I remember my first Secret Santa experience as if it were yesterday. I was in the 4th grade. [...]

By Melissa Simpson, Managing Editor
A couple of weeks ago, my sweet husband surprised me with an early Christmas gift, the one thing on my list: a Blackberry.
And I’m hooked.
I’ve become one of “those people.” You know the ones: they occupy themselves while at the doctor’s office or in the car line to pick their [...]

By Syrone Harvey
I’m a multi-tasker but not just your ordinary, ‘walk and chew gum at the same time’ variety. As my kids would say, I have mad, multi-tasking skills. For example, the other day, as I was talking on the phone with my sister, baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, sorting a [...]

By Angelia L. White
As 2009 comes to end and we prepare to welcome a new year, I must say I am thankful that it’s ending on a good note. I’m not saying that I have everything all together or my life is just completely perfect! That would be far from the truth. [...]

By Monica Watkins
A few weeks ago, I packed up my things and headed out to one of the local Panera Bread restaurants for a morning meeting and an afternoon of writing. For those of you who don’t know Panera is hot spot for all types of “meeting” activities - business meetings, mommy meetings, bible [...]

by Monique Farmer
The weekend before Thanksgiving, my mother spent the day at my house, helping me clean and do laundry. But, the primary purpose of her visit was to help me learn to make sweet potato pie the way she makes it, because that’s the way my husband, John, likes it. I took my first [...]

By Maura Oprisko, Book Editor
Oh, Dan Brown. You’re so very…Dan Brown.
If you open up The Lost Symbol as one familiar with the way Brown writes a thriller, you will not be disappointed when you finally close it (on the last page, of course). Now, if you’re familiar with Dan Brown, you also open [...]

o, I know I’m the book editor, and you’d expect me to blog about a book…but I would totally write about this one anyway. Ho-ly. Crap.
Marcus Buckingham (New York Times Best-Selling author of Now, Discover Your Strengths) has a new book coming out September 29 called Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and [...]

By Melissa Simpson
Back on July 16, the day that the first HOPE e-newsletter released, my best friend Angela sent me an email to see if I could come to her house because she had something to give me. When I got there, she came out with a card and a gift. Though Angela is a [...]

By Kathryn Whitbourne, Senior and Web Editor
When I started writing for Hope for Women, Angie, the publisher, shared with me her vision for making this magazine a place for Christian women which would be real and truthful about living a faith-filled life. I thought this was a great concept. So often we as [...]