Posted January 23, 2015 by Nancy Hicks
The New Year’s off to a great start! After saying good-bye to family and friends who visited over Christmas, I was ready to strip the beds, ditch the sweets (though I’m still finding remnants tucked here and there), and get some routine going! I’m like this: I like a…
Posted January 14, 2015 by Nancy Hicks
Back on the treadmill last night at the gym (it’s been way too long!) my eyes and ears were on CNN’s coverage of the Paris shootings. I’m curious about what you think. Have I got it right, is this the way it goes? 1. I believe one thing. If…
Posted January 8, 2015 by Nancy Hicks
Recently I had an interesting situation. The comedy show, “The Soup” took an innocent piece of work I did on-air with QVC and twisted it to make it sexual. The spoof was funny to lots of people, but for me…well, not so much. Several people have commented to me about…
Posted December 18, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
About thirteen Christmases ago, Cam, David, Aaron and I let our families know that we were not coming home for Christmas. We were living in Nebraska and thought we’d spend our first Christmas on our own. With both Cam and my families in Toronto and the Toronto area, we…
Posted December 10, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
Well, it’s here; ready or not, Christmastime is here. Watching “The Bells of St. Mary’s” as backdrop to list writing and receipt sorting last night, I finally began to feel it. On the heels of work, rehearsals, ministry Brunches, papers, Christmas decorating (is everyone done but me?) shopping, etc. it…
Posted November 19, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
Oh, what a difference a week makes. Ok, so I’m not desperately undone, but sort of. Here’s the hustle and bustle part: I’m almost done with the Seminary coursework (papers and group projects currently underway), but it’s crunch time; QVC’s nice and busy, and I like it that way, but…
Posted November 12, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
WOO HOO! I’m coming around the bend and I can see the finish line for this semester of Seminary. It turns out that my coursework will be complete by the first week of December, which leaves only a thesis next semester. Again: WOO HOO! I’ve been giving some thought to…
Posted November 6, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
Here’s what happened to me a couple of days ago: I was coming out of the local Trader Joe's and a man stopped me as I was loading my groceries into the trunk of my car. “Excuse me lady.” He told me a story of his desperation to get back…
Posted October 29, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
Let's continue on from last week: why, you may be asking, do I say that Christianity (the Church) in the Western world (North America and Western Europe) needs to go back to basics? In the west, Christians have to grapple again with the issues that the early Church had to…
Posted October 22, 2014 by Nancy Hicks
I think the western church needs to go back basics. Whenever there’s a glitch in a system (this applies to sales, business, sports, music, math, art, science, etc. and I have a hunch it applies here) you go back to basics. Much like the early church, we seem to be…