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Andi Ashworth

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About Me

About Andi Ashworth's Book
Real Love for Real Life

Caregiving is a creative, joy-filled art -- a service vital to our families and communities. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and practical helps, Andi Ashworth addresses the artistry, practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community. Here [in Real Love for Real Life], she offers a grand invitation to serve others with the beauty, imagination, and love to which God calls us.
"At last, an inspiring and intelligent defense of the human values -- such as empathy, service, and beauty -- that modern society marginalizes. Ashworth offers warm encouragement to those whose gifts of giving are often undervalued."
- Nancy Pearcey, co-author (with Charles Colson) of
How Now Shall We Live?
"Real Love for Real Life is the most original book we've read in years. Andi encourages, inspires, challenges, and dignifies the caregiver. With wisdom and grace she offers a vision of a life lived with true purpose and hope. Real Love for Real Life will change the way your family lives."
- Katie and Dan Haseltine, Jars of Clay
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My Interests

Books, books, and more books, thinking, writing, movies, cooking, gardening, artful living, beautiful little grandchildren, beautiful big grown up children, coffee, NPR, friends, my husband of 32 years, bike riding in Yuba City, walking in Percy Warner Park, International Justice Mission, Notes from Toad Hall, Critique magazine, did I say books? ..

Music:

Nat King Cole, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Shawn Colvin, Sam and Ruby, Andy Davis, Sam Ashworth, Bill Evans, Charlie P., Sara Groves, Sarah Masen, Al Green, Motown folks, British Invasion of the 60's

Movies:

Stranger Than Fiction, The Philadelphia Story, Chocolat, Waking Ned Devine, You've Got Mail, Dan in Real LIfe, Freedom Writers

Television:

The Closer, The Office, The Gilmore Girls, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip--where did it go? Nightly doses of Grey's Anatomy right now.

Books:

Hannah Coulter, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Antonia, Cry The Beloved Country, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Jayber Crow, Peace Like a River, Truth and Beauty, Two-Part Invention, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Heroes:

Edith Schaeffer, Wendell Berry, my grandmother

My Blog

Excerpt 2--Curiosity

In 1976 we lived in Sacramento, poor as church-mice. I worked in a hotel cleaning rooms and Chuck took jobs in food service and Top 40 bands. We barely made the rent each month, but we could always ...
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:44:00 PST

On Reading and Writing (an excerpt)

Seaside, Florida, late April, 2003. We're here for beach inspiration and book writing. Chuck to finish New Way to Be Human and me to start something new. The urge to write another book has been sti...
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:00:00 PST

Things I love

From my journal--April 28, 2007Things I love: the first cup of coffee in the morning. A weeded garden beginning to bloom. A movie that moves me and makes me think. My children, my grandchildren, my...
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:31:00 PST

Listen to Audio Lecture by Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock

Click below to listen to Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock's lecture: Making Room for Strangers in a Busy World ...
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:19:00 PST

Interview by Denis Haack--Caring: A Conversation with Andi Ashworth

By Denis Haack at Ransom Fellowship:Click here to read
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:52:00 PST

Article by Andi on Vocation

Here is an article written for The Washington Institute:Click here to read Andi's article
Posted by Andi Ashworth on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:49:00 PST