I can't sleep ( Read more... )

A girl I never knew in high school found me online the other day as we commented on

women's rights, government control of the uterus,

and which Harry Potter movie was the best.

I remember her from back then, vaguely -

a shadowy blob of smart girl;

I think she played an instrument.

On Monday her husband died

just a week shy of their two month anniversary.

( Read more... )

When you are young

no one tells you that when you grow up

it will be harder to believe

in God,

that you will have to stop eating

so much junk food,

that the boy you love as a young girl

will become a man

you do not know,

and that you will become

a woman that

your teenage self

wouldn't recognize.

One day

that girl you call your best friend

will call you for the ( Read more... )

Wow.  I've had this journal since I was 17.  Looking back at it... I have changed quite a lot.  For the better?  I don't know.  I certainly don't have the confidence in all my beliefs that I once thought I did.  I think it's harder to see things in black and white as we get older - or maybe it's just me.  But I'm thankful that I'm less judgmental, ( Read more... )

Every so often I checked Livejournal to see what people are up to... and apparently no one has written in quite a while.  And I just realized that I haven't written since September.  I used to have at least 10 friends who regularly wrote on Livejournal, and who I kept close contact with; now I have about 3 friends on LJ.  So.  I'm keeping my ( Read more... )

Cross-posted at jessicamaylords.blogspot.com

From NPR:

"Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."

In this spirit, Smith Magazine invited writers "famous and obscure" to distill their own life stories into exactly six words. It All Changed in an Instant is ( Read more... )

Another friggin' earthquake this was a 6.0 instead of a 6.5 like last time. I twisted my leg weird getting up and hurt it, while running in to two coworkers.

I'm more pissed about that than the earthquake.

Last night after Life Group, Bethany, Keith, Bryan and I were going to see Avatar. It would have been our second time seeing it and Bethany and Keith's first time. Instead we decided we were hungry and went to Winco to buy stuff to make pizzas ( Read more... )

According to H&R Block's calculation device thingy, Bryan and I should be getting over $1,000 back after our taxes are done. SERIOUSLY? I sure hope so, that would be awesome! That would cover the move to Jackson ( Read more... )

Life is very strange, very strange indeed. Bryan graduated in December and is now looking for jobs, which is really hard in this economy, as everyone already knows. Right now we're in this weird place where we're just not quite sure what to do. We have looked for a few jobs here but there's just so little work to be had. We've looked in ( Read more... )