It’s OBaby’s first birthday, but you are the ones getting the presents! How great is that? My connection with Written Art just might be my favorite story from blogville of late. (Does the name sound familiar? You may have noticed her lovely banner over here —->) See, Ann of Written Art was on my friend [...]
I was a college freshman sitting at a table in Saga with DanO talking about his family who live in this land where it is cold in an ungodly way 5½ months out of the year. Apparently it was so cold one time his and his siblings’ school was closed. Something about the high being [...]
I have been holding something in. I think it’s because my mother taught me not to step on people’s toes and this particular topic is incredibly tricky to handle in a non-tootsie stepping way. Well, here it goes. I am learning that parenting is this fabulous common ground that can provide for solid friendships based [...]
When I think about how much has changed for me in the last 5 years, I have to laugh. My first day of college, 2004 ¬©Papa Rabe And not just because I paid $65 dollars for those jeans from Abercrombie and Fitch that were meant to look old. Look at 18 year old me, rockin’ [...]
To graduate. We can’t wait to make it official, and to have our families here to witness it! Here’s our whirlwind weekend schedule: Friday, May 9th:morning: -pick up fruit arrangement for Saturday’s partyafternoon: -my parents arrive from Portland -commencement rehearsal -go pick up cake for Saturday’s partynight: -dinner with my parents Saturday, May 10th:morning:-get ready [...]
I kept telling myself that when the weather warmed up I would start running again, but, then I remembered that I live in the Midwest. So, I finally stopped kidding myself and in the last few weeks, Mr. Treadmill and I have become pretty good friends. However, I’ve noticed this psychological hurdle that I have [...]
Today was Breakaway Ministry and CSC chapel. Having sat through a chapeltizement or two in my college career, I recognized what I saw, and I wanted to apologize for it. Ministries that get to run a chapel service during the school year often see it as a marketing opportunity to recruit students to serve with [...]
Dan and I took a kinesiology class on cross-country skiing over the weekend. We left Friday up to northern Wisconsin and stayed until Monday (we got back at midnight last night). We skied more than 5 hours each day for Saturday-Monday. Our professor was an incredibly intense life-long athlete, and we were out on the [...]
