Have you ever been scared to fall asleep? Did you ever think that maybe, for one reason or another, you might not wake up again? Were you OK with the thought, or did it frighten you?
Sometimes when I get sick, I’m kind of…reluctant…to fall asleep. It seems that I’m breathing [...]
Everyone other US blogger will surely have their own 4th of July post. Hopefully mine is unique.
I have no plans for today. It’s not that I don’t want plans. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate a holiday. It’s just that…nothing came up. If I were a good US [...]
If I was surprised when Kathy walked up, then I was amazed to see Mark’s face.
“There are a few more people (family) that want to come to dinner tonight. Is that ok?†The Doughtys were in town and apparently expanding our gathering for dinner on Friday night. I didn’t care who came. I [...]
I figured it out. I know where we missed the opportunity. We definitely didn’t blow it, but it could have been even better.
There were three of us, all in our early twenties, living together across the street from a lake.
(Wait…suddenly I know where we missed two opportunities….)
We were there, together, the [...]
When I arrived home last night, there was a message on the answering machine. My father left a message stating that my nephew had died this past weekend.
This message was from a father I never had while growing up. I didn’t really get to start my relationship with him until the [...]
Here’s something I began writing…well over a year ago. I meant to go further, but never got back to it. It’s complete enough as is.
Here’s my reasoning for listening to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM):
1) I like the sound of the music. The music appeals to me. I like band music [...]
Tag, I’m it, thanks to Chris Hubbs. I’m going to pull a Kari and skip the last two steps. I don’t always play by the rules. Not when you can’t make me.
The Rules:
(1) Link to the person that tagged you.
(2) Post the rules on your blog.
(3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks [...]
The link for you to try to see how many 5 year olds you could take in a fight does not work as I expected. (I could take 18.) Here’s what I think happened:
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Sorry for the inconvenience!
The kids, the young adults, these days make me feel old:
I don’t text message and I don’t approve of the lack of proper grammar used whilst text messaging.
I still haven’t really set up my cell phone that I’ve had since May. I haven’t recorded a greeting. I haven’t taken a single picture. [...]
On Monday many of my plans went awry. I can be a spur of the moment person. I can be a spontaneous person. I can roll with the flow. I really can, but…maybe I can only do it when I don’t really care about what’s going on. When I have [...]
The other day, Monday I believe, I was driving down the road wondering what, exactly, was the functional difference between “ubiquitous” and “pervasive.”
Does anything like this ever happen to you?
Sometime late last week or earlier this week I was thinking about football. Probably because I’m reading a fantasy-football type book. Anyway, I tell people every once in a while that I still have 4 years of college eligibility left because I didn’t play in college. I realize that, at 30 years [...]
We meet every day
I have so much I want to say
Were I not so afraid
I could tell you these things
Your eyes, they envelop me
I never know how much you see
Had I the strength
I could tell you these things
When you smile, inside I smile too
I wish I could say to you
You’ve captured [...]
When you were little, did you ever play the Give Game? In this game you had to wrestle around and try to cause each other so much pain or discomfort that you got the other person to say “give”. This game vaulted my standings with the kids in my neighborhood.
I was always too [...]
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“I’m rolling up to Becky’s house on my Sunday drive
I have to laugh to myself ’cause it looks exactly like mine”
–Chris Rice “Me and Becky”
Inside the actual house, probably our favorite pastime was building blanket forts underneath the kitchen table. David [...]
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Read Part 2 next.
This is where I find my soul,
Out where holy men of old
first knelt in soil
and thanked You for the rain.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”
Those are things that David and I did in the general area of the house, but how about adventures in the very yard of the house? [...]
Let me off and wander,
Robin song and thunder,
Surrounding me with stained glass leaves
that change with every breeze.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”
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As I mentioned before, the stream led to a pond. Eddington pond. This pond is where I could be found, at 2 years of age, out on the very end of someone’s [...]
Sweetest days of childhood,
Playing in the deep woods,
Stomping through the creek
and feeling oh-so-much alive.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”
My cousin David and I spent much of our younger years outside playing. There were multiple different wooded areas around to play in, as well as a stream which eventually led to a large pond.
Near to our grandparents’ [...]
A while back I thought up the idea to explain why I was working at a people hospital when I had a Bachelor’s in Veterinary Science. Then Geof commented that he didn’t know I was going to be a supervisor in a department of the hospital. This clinched my resolve to fully (hopefully) [...]
My mother and I are friends. She was young when she had me, too young to have a child really. When you are sixteen you should be enjoying high school…or at least trying not to make too many social blunders, depending on what type personality you have.
We went out for Mother’s Day last [...]
