Category: Personal

  • In the News

    It is my daily goal to write and post something encouraging and thoughtful. I believe writing is an important discipline, I enjoy it, and I love the feedback from you guys (well, gals) who comment. This post, however, is just random. I made it through my 30th birthday. It was a good day, as far…

  • Dear Me

    Dear Me 1992, You are the half-way point of our life, LJ, and I’m thinking about you on our birthday. You did a fantastic performance on your learner’s permit exam today! Mom is going to let you drive to the dinner party at The Landing and you’re going to really scare her at the intersection…

  • What we did before DiGiorno

    I did a lot of my growing up years in a very small town. It was the kind of “place where everybody knows your name.” At the time, divorce was something very much frowned upon. As far as I knew, my parents were the only ones who had ever divorced in our town’s history. Rumors…

  • The 7 Meme

    Tracy and Lisa tagged me for an interesting meme. Here are the rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names.…

  • Fighting Melancholy

    What a dreary post that was yesterday, and it was my 300th! I should have been bragging about blogging and listing my favorite posts for everyone to read rather than sharing my OH LOOK, KITTENS!! To help remedy my downward thinking I sat down to read a little book (only 79 pages) of John Piper’s…