Have you ever made tea for someone you were losing? Twenty-six days of home hospice. A lifetime of faith. One unforgettable mother.
A New Kind of “Everywhere” — Purple Flower on My Nose
Those of you who’ve followed Everywhere Hope and Everywhere Love know I write about finding God in the ordinary corners of life. This new book takes that same conviction into the hardest corner of all.
Purple Flower on My Nose is the true story of my mother Violet’s final twenty-six days, and the faith that carried our whole family through them. It’s not a devotional in the traditional sense — it’s a journal, unpolished and real — but it holds the same truth every Everywhere book has tried to tell: that God shows up, even here. Especially here.
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Each book in the Everywhere… series stands alone, yet together they form a larger testament: that grace can be found everywhere, in every season, in every place we have ever called home.
The Everywhere… series is a collection of spiritual memoirs and poetry, each one a themed meditation on a universal human experience — and each one built on a single conviction: God is present everywhere in ordinary life. In the hunger we carry. In the places we struggle to belong. In the hope we almost miss. In the love we find hard to receive.
Each volume pairs an honest, often vulnerable memoir with original poetry and Scripture, inviting readers into a personal journey that becomes universal. Drawing on a life lived across London, Pensacola, Iran, and Jacksonville — and a family history spanning the Pumfrey, Veloso, and Babadi names — Babadi writes from the crossroads of cultures, finding God present in every one of them.
Everywhere Love: The Highway Homecontinues the journey, mapping the road from human love to divine love across six chapters — a road trip through family, loss, resilience, and grace.
Everywhere Love: The Highway Home
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Everywhere Hope: Encouraging Moments in Prose and Poetry (2nd edition, 2026) opens the series with reflections on hope found in life’s smallest, most ordinary moments. Updated with new stories and poems.
“The author of Everywhere Hope, Paula Babadi, has taken ordinary experiences in her life, conceivably in any woman’s life, and siphoned beauty, grace, and wisdom from their content. The triple appeal of prose, poetry, and pictures gently leads the reader into a fresh appreciation of one’s own moments as truly God-graced. Most appropriately titled, this lovely book belongs on everyone’s bedside table.” — Nancy H. Murray, author of The Madonnas of St. Augustine and The Night the Elephants Cried – A Story of the Tsunami.
