Issue 1. ✍🏻 Limits, lycra, and existential crises.

Plus fun things happening in March, community shoutouts, and Dinner Club.

Hey friend,

Thank you so much for subscribing to Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. Welcome to Issue 1, March 2025.

If it’s been a little while since you signed up, let me bring you up to speed. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. One Wednesday you will get essays and poetry in your inbox from our team of local Christian women. The next Wednesday you will get a podcast episode. Check out the new website and all about our team!

Here’s a quick overview of the feast we’ve prepared for you:

🍷 Wine: Fun things happening in WA and what our team is creating

🧀🫒 Tapas: Shout out to the community who helped Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner to start

🍝 First Course: Scooters Go One Speed—by Amy Stopher

🍲 Second Course: On Socks and Spider Orchids—by Rebecca Marie

🍰 Dessert: We want you to enjoy this content in community with other women. We’d love you to discuss the stories in gatherings around food. We’ve suggested some questions as a jumping off point for your very own Dinner Club.

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🍷Wine

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Tenielle Neda

recently dropped two singles: How Beautiful the Feet (with Citizens) and The Wisdom of the Cross 👏🏻👏🏻

🎵 March 15 - Folk in the Yard by Red Gum Rhythms featuring Pearl Roycroft and Kira Gunn (Bayswater)

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Karen Fergie (Founding Member), Meredith Aguero (Founding Member), Yolanda Bilson, Stacey Fourie, Kate Middleton, Bethany Angus, Amanda Juniper, Donna Smyth, Ruth McGill, Rowena McMicking, Sue Symons, Jacqui Robinson, Dennis Mahoney, jazman83, cathd83, chocolatefish68, mpkop, caileya, and kingslyn_nbn ❤️

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Photo by Pearl Roycroft

🍝 Scooters Go One Speed

By Amy Stopher

For the past 10 years I’ve worked mostly from home. Not everyone loves the WFH lifestyle, but it has suited me. Without a commute (or small children, let’s be honest), I made the most of time in the mornings–early beach swims, dog walks, coffee on the back patio over the Bible. Mornings were consistent. A time of refreshment. When our team moved into an office mid-last year, my mornings got shaken. Somehow I had to find 30 minutes to get to the office. In an attempt to multi-task, I decided to ride my bike. I’m not a cyclist, far from. I like riding my bike, but just for fun. Now, I’m now a biking commuter. I can ride pretty much from my front door to the office without riding on a road. Six months in and I’m hooked. Read more

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Photo by MART PRODUCTION

🍲 On Socks and Spider Orchids

By Rebecca Marie

It was the socks that did it. Socks triggered my existential crisis.

Apparently, you can discern between a Gen Z and a Millennial by their socks. Millennials wear ankle socks and Gen Z wear crew socks.

I sit on the bed, look at my teeny tiny socks, and embarrassment nestles in my chest like a newborn. I don’t want to be like those Dads in the eighties who moved out to the suburbs and continued to wear their acid-washed jeans while the world moved on. But I don’t want to be like Regina George’s Mum in Mean Girls, trying so hard to fit in with teenagers. Read more

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🍰 Dinner Club

While we would love to hear from you in the comments below, our dearest hope is that the stories we share with you each week prompt you to enjoy this content in community. We dream of you gathering with women around food, that you might borrow one of our questions as a launch pad for a deeper conversation.

1. What gives your brain rest?

2. What shows you your own creaturely limits?

3. What do you refuse to wear? Is there a trend that you thought you would hate but have come to love?

4. What are you learning about beauty?

Thank you for reading! We’ll be back in your inbox next Wednesday with a podcast interview with one of our podcast hosts, Maddy Rhodes, about what she learned through loss.

Please pray for the team as we create for you. Pray that God would inspire us to make beautiful things to his glory and that He would equip us to persevere in serving you well 💛

If you liked what you read, please send it to a friend 😉

Love,

Bec