• Fashion Friday: Edition I have a new website design

    A few weeks ago, a friend texted me and said they were looking for something on my blog and a link took them to a page filled with Chinese writing. And that made me realize that I hadn’t changed anything around here for a long time and, while I guess this is still technically a…

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Meet Melanie

Melanie Shankle is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker and co-host of The Big Boo podcast.

She looks for the holy and the humorous in her daily life and uses her voice to share that with others.

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Authors / speakers Melanie Shankle and Sophie Hudson – also known as Big Mama and BooMama on their blogs – talk about all the important stuff: faith, family, friends, football, fashion and food… and of course, their hair.

  • Big Boo Cast: Episode 200

    That’s right. It only took us thirteen years, but we’ve officially reached our 200th episode of The Big Boo Cast. If slow and steady wins the race, then we are…

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  • Big Boo Cast: Episode 197

    This week we answer some listener questions covering a broad range of topics, but you need to know that college football was one of those topics and we have SOME…

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  • Big Boo Cast: Episode 195

    It was about six weeks ago when my friend Karen Howell recommended a show called Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix. Thanks to the pandemic, I had pretty much watched everything…

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