So, I'm totally stealing this from my friend Toni because it's great!  I found it to be very inspiring.
It was titled "The game they play in heaven"

In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby ( Read more... )

The good news is that I’m coming to visit MN for a week starting on Friday, May 2. My plane arrives at 10pm in Minneapolis, so if there are any CSB rugby alumni who would care to show their hospitality (yeah Benedictine values!) I would greatly appreciate a place to crash/a ride to alumni match.
The bad news...I may not be playing in the alumni ( Read more... )

Austria was beautiful and seeing Laura was amazing.  (I can't wait to see you in a couple months dear!)  So I'm totally not complaining about  going to Austria or anything...But I really hate jet lag!

I definitely fell asleep last night at about 8pm, which was fine, cause I totally need the sleep, but the really crappy part about that is then you ( Read more... )

 Why is it that just when you count on people being out of your life, they seem to come back into it in some way?  In a new person that reminds you of them; In old memories; in person.  And if people keep reappearing in your life, even after they're thought to be long gone, does that necessarily mean that they're supposed to be a part of your life?

 Life here is crazy, as always ( Read more... )

So...Christmas...
Yeah, so things are very odd in my life right now, no matter where I'm at.  Both my personal and professional lives here in Phoenix are in kinda weird places.  My job is stressing me out way too much for this to be healthy for anyone involved, and I'm not the only one.  All of our house parents are at the end of our supplies of ( Read more... )

Surprisingly, I was Carrie!  I always thought I was so much more Miranda, but now that I think about it...
I can see it.

http://www.blogthings.com/whichsexandthecityvixenareyouquiz/

 "More than 800 million people still suffer from malnutrition, and it is often difficult to find immediate solutions for improving these tragic situations.  Nevertheless, we must seek them together so that we will no longer have, side by side the starving and the wealthy, the very poor and the very rich, those who lack the necessary means and ( Read more... )

-I would tell certain people to stop being such control freaks and let me do my job ( Read more... )

As I'm thinking about my current job situation, and everything that's going on in life right now, I'm forced to ponder, does that final breath really help.  When you're drowning...Does fighting your way back to the surface, just to take that one last breath really make a difference?  When you're being choked and smothered and you kick and scratch ( Read more... )