Have you ever felt vague? Just a ( Read more... )

My life is so different than it was 8 weeks ago, and time has a lot to do with that I suppose.  Not just the passing of time, but having time.  Before I started working at day camp, I had a ton of time to think, read, ponder the deeper questions of life and now I'm lucky to make it through my checklist for the day.  Why does real life have to be so ( Read more... )

It's truly a funny thing how every single person comes from such a different perspective.  Everyone comes to life with their own personality, experiences, set of values, family, friends, etc.  I think that it is these things can define that oh so nebulous term - culture.  I see it everywhere; sometimes it's big gaping wholes that separate me from ( Read more... )

So yesterday was weird. It started with a Memorial Day service at our church. For the past three years, our church has done this service where we do not have sunday school and the whole church come together for this servic where the all-men choir sings patriotic hymns and former veterans pray or read scripture or something. All that to say, it ( Read more... )

Today, I went to Lake Keystone with my friends Anna, Ben, and Adam Craycraft.  It was about an hour drive from their house, but it was worth it.  We rented a ski boat and spent four hours water-skiing.  At first, we were discouraged because it was a bit cloudy, and it's never cloudy here, so that was dumb.  The sun managed to find it's way out ( Read more... )

I love friends that help me feel normal. I just spent the entire evening talking to my friend Debbie about my life, and "validated" all my apathy, questions, doubt, not-knowing, etc.  It was not a validation in that she said it was ok to believe in nothing, but she recognized that it is a normal stage that I have to go through in order to have a ( Read more... )