I now pay for a blog. It's a lovely little typepad account that I was trying on and have decided to keep it officially, so if you've been waiting for this to be updated, I apologize. Try me here... http://withthepoodlesalready.blogspot.com

...without following You.

When your life gets too blog friendly, you take a blog sabbatical.

If I sing a song, will you sing along? Or should I just keep singing right here by myself? If I tell you I'm strong, will you play along? Or would you see I'm as insecure as anybody else? If I follow along, does that mean I belong? Or will I keep on feeling different from everybody ( Read more... )

Deliver me. Courage to guide me. Deliver me. Your strength inside me.

Stress. Anxiety. Confusion. People. Papers.

(what am i supposed to do?)

When you have to look away. When you dont have much to say, that's when I love you. I love you, just that way. To hear you stumble when you speak or see you walk with two left feet, that's when I love you ( Read more... )

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Today I laid in the grass on the Horseshoe with three of my best friends. We ran barefoot and found clovers. And maybe a little of our summer innocence. I listened to Blue Merle to remember that first week of summer. The one where everything was perfect. It made me think of Matt Callis and how much we all miss him. And it made me think of all the ( Read more... )

Shooting star in the middle of the sky. You blink too long and the lights will pass you by. One shot sight to see. A chance to make a wish, but you're laying around man, why so sad?I'm supposed to be in class right now. I'm not. My head aches and I'm tired and I'm treating myself to one of three classes today because foreign policy was actually ( Read more... )

Here it comes, a beautiful collision is happening now.I like watching people change. I like watching whole communities change. God changes people. Sometimes it’s really slow. Sometimes it only takes a weekend. But no matter the time frame, it’s always an amazing thing to see happen ( Read more... )

Last night, Joe came into town. He delivered to me a very warm sleeping back for Shack on the Lake. He's my hero, but for more reasons than just that. Anyway. We went to dinner at Miyo's. Joe, Kara, and I. It was quite the enjoyable experience. They both loved the restaurant and our waiter - who just happens to be the oh-so-amazing Matt Jones. The ( Read more... )

Do you ever just get so incredibly frustrated with everything that's going on in your life? And you're so busy, but it feels like everything is going sooooo slow? And that maybe this is it and your life will never really culminate to anything big or great? It's enough to drive a girl insane.

Sometimes I think that it is as simple as I learned my ( Read more... )