Word of the Week – Salary and Salt
Leave it to my daughter to lean over in the middle of church and whisper, "Word of the week!" during the sermon--which is exactly what happened when my dad shared this fun little tidbit. ;-)Did you know that salary is from the same root as salt? Salary has meant "wages, compensation" since the...
Thoughtful About . . . Understanding Riots
I'll admit it--I've never understood riots. Whether they're a result of a sporting event or a grave injustice, the act itself is just something that is foreign to my disposition. I have been largely baffled by the examples in my lifetime, and I honestly didn't know what to think of them. Should I...
Moving!
Hello, lovely readers! I'm going to be taking this week off the blog...and will be migrating it to my website. So if you're visiting right now, you may see a few hiccups as I get everything transferred. But after that, it should (I hope and pray!) all just go automatically there. Say a prayer for...
Thoughtful About . . . Encouragers
At the time of writing this (the weekend before it posts), I'm sitting with my laptop at the kitchen table while my husband's comfy in our leather armchair, reading The Nature of a Lady before I have to turn it in on June 1. I'm so very blessed to have a...
Word of the Week – Sit, Twiddle, and Twirl
Originally published on 9/3/2012 Today I'm going to examine the origin of a particular phrase rather than a particular word. 😉 Back in the day when I originally examined this, as I was working on Whispers from the Shadows, my hero was exclaiming something about how it was time to take action...
Thoughtful About…The Compassion Conundrum
In last weekend's sermon, my dad preached from Luke 14, and as he went through the Scriptures, something interesting jumped out at me.First is something that has struck me many times before, in many different passages. Jesus, often about some other task, comes across someone in need. Sometimes...
Word of the Week – Nauseous
Originally published 10/15/2012 Okay, y'all, I originally posted this seven and a half years ago, and my call for actual evidence to support the claim below netted me nothing but others who were curious, LOL. So I'm trying again--because this claim has since even appeared on Big Bang Theory,...
Throwback Thursdays – The Joy
Originally posted 3/6/14 I've blogged several times over the years about JOY. What it is, how it's action and choice and not emotion, how it compares to happiness. In some ways, this post from six years ago started it all, so I thought we'd do a revisit. =) Last week the small Bible study group I...
Word of the Week – Mean
Originally posted 8/20/12 Mean is one of those words that I knew well would have been around forever, but I looked it up to see about some of the particular uses. And as usual, found a few surprises. =) As a verb, mean has meant "intend, have in mind" even back in the days of Old English....
Thoughtful About . . . Preparing Our Hearts to Knock on the Door
Let me share a few stories with you. You've probably heard them before. They're stories about some of the Great Men of Faith in our recent history. First, one of my favorites about George Muller. One morning at his orphanage, he was informed by a panicked house mother that there was absolutely no...
About Me
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award nominated author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. 
