Book Month Challenge Day 4: Book That Makes You Cry
This is another hard one because I’m a cryer. I mean, if I re-read Charlotte’s Web tomorrow, I’ll cry at the part when Charlotte dies. So I’m going to just pick a book that made me cry, but that I also think is a really good read. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. This story [...]
The Family Vacation
We just got back from a vacation in Florida. The first few days were just beach/pool days, and despite some rain, we got several hours at the beach each day. Then we headed to Orlando to hit Islands of Adventure. Steven and I had been dying to go to the Harry Potter section! We were [...]
Lenten Reflections: Lentgitimate
Today’s guest blogger is Samantha McElfresh, who was a student at a high school I taught at a few years ago. She is now a junior at the University of Tennessee studying English and secondary education with the goal of becoming an English teacher. She will be running her first half-marathon today! We wish her good [...]
First Ladies Fashion (From a Non-Fashionista)
One of the coolest things I saw in Washington, D.C. (official trip post with pictures to come!) this week was the collection of First Ladies’ dresses at the Museum of American History. What girl doesn’t like to see “dressy dresses” as my 6-year-old daughter called them? Here are my official First Lady Fashion award winners: [...]
The Shocking Casey Anthony Trial
We’d seen the photos of her partying while her child was missing. We’d heard about the web of lies she’d spun. We all thought Casey Anthony was guilty of murdering her little girl. But yesterday the bombshell dropped: Not guilty. Isn’t it interesting that our courts use the verbage “not guilty” instead of ”innocent?” Innocence connotes [...]
I’m Too Lazy for This Post
I am convinced that if you asked for five things that characterize me, one of them will be laziness. Laziness has more or less taken over my life. * In January I joined Weight Watchers and kept up with it for about a month. Lost seven pounds. Have gained four of those pounds back. Canceled [...]
The Dividing Line
My good friend once told me that everyone views his/her life in two parts: Before and After. There is always a crucial experience or a crisis moment that a person goes back to as the dividing line that changed his/her life. We were in college at the time, and at 19 years old, my friend’s [...]
Burning a Quran Does Not Make Jesus Happy
I’m perturbed. I’m outraged. I’m frustrated. It’s happened again. Another Christian has made a bad name for all American Christians by doing something insane and hateful. By burning a Quran. The ridiculous part is that the church held a “trial” and found the Quran “guilty” and thus subject to punishment. Read more about it here. [...]
Signs of Spring
I dedicate this post to my blogging friend over at The Wanderer, who lives in Buenos Aires, and for whom autumn is beginning! Wearing shorts . . . New life emerging . . . Bradford pear trees blooming . . . Gorgeous white blooms (complete with bees!) . . . . Sidewalk chalk (I call [...]
Repost: Karissa (aka Ashley)
I am currently copy-editing a friend’s dissertation and have not had much time to blog (although some blog topics are rumbling around in my head!), so tonight I am re-posting this from over a year ago. I have a confession to make. I have an alter ego. I call her my non-domestic self. Sometimes I [...]
