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It’s 4:30 in the morning and rain is pouring down. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out it was raining. I got up, pushed a series of red and green buttons on the wall to…
It’s 4:30 in the morning and rain is pouring down. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out it was raining. I got up, pushed a series of red and green buttons on the wall to…
If you like your life the way it is, never ever EVER pray for peace. I had everything figured out. I would marry Joel and we would work together to be less miserable as time went on. I would rent…
Although they’re just for fun, personality quizzes help us find our habits—good and bad. When I’m forced to wonder which mythical creature I’d rather befriend I learn what values are most important to me. (It would be so cool to…
In February, two months before Joel and I broke up, I prayed an unusual prayer. “God, please let whatever is hidden between us be made known. Let our secrets come out of the dark and into the light.” That was…
Step 1. Grieve We are told “it’s okay to cry” since elementary school, but crying still makes me feel stupid and ugly so I ignore the impulse until it goes away. However, like an earthquake that causes a tsunami, the…
Going through my break-up with Joel has been a battle against the ocean—some days the waves are small and easy to climb over, others feel like I’m being crushed and pulled under by the riptide. I must have searched for…
I didn’t cry when Spider-man died in the previous Avengers movie. (That’s not a spoiler. You should know that by now…) They’re gonna bring him back, I reminded myself. They’ll bring them all back. Knowing victory was inevitable, I entered…
“You will lose loved ones because of me,” Jesus promised. I knew what that phrase meant but I didn’t understand it until last night. While we still love them we will lose them. Last night, less than 2 months before…
I wasn’t going to go. As an online student, homework never stops—not for snow days, sick days, or when you are recruited to photograph an out-of-state 3-day conference…or something like that. But guess what? I was recruited to be the…
A couple weeks ago I had a birthday. I didn’t do anything to celebrate it because my plans to set up a private krav maga session fell through. (It was the perfect chance for Grammy to learn some tactical martial…