Stupid!

If you are a married person, you know what I am talking about. Those stupid, asinine fights over stupid, asinine subjects. But for some reason, they just get under your skin and you can’t let it go. My friend Ellen wrote this on her blog a few days ago, and I just had to quote [...]

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Response to ‘Body Image’ Post

I must confess I haven’t blogged lately due to the huge response to my ‘body image’ post. It seems silly, but I’ve intimidated myself. It seems I’ve hit a nerve and I feel I won’t write anything else read-worthy again. I talked to a writing friend of mine, and she said she has a contract [...]

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Three Year Old Slo-Mo

“I’m not a diwee daddler” shouts my three year old Sadie. (She is four now, but three at the time of this writing…) We are on the way (late, as usual) out the door and I’m trying not to just pick her up and toss her into her car seat. Sadie, yes, you ARE a [...]

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My Yellow Pocket Knife

I’m trying to organize all of my piles of writing. So I’m going through paper files and computer files to see if I can come up with something to put together to send out for publication. Along the way I’ve found some interesting things I had forgotten I had written. Here’s an essay I wrote [...]

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Body Image

I’ve been struggling with body image lately. I’m the heaviest I’ve been since I was pregnant–quite disheartening with summer and pool season coming on. But I found this rough draft essay that I wrote a year ago that encouraged me. The Time Before Knowing My daughter Sadie looks at her naked body proudly in the [...]

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Class assignment re: the end times

Essentials of Evangelical Theology 04/19/07 Olson 15 Letter Dear Toni and Denise~ I was a little intense in high school, wasn’t I? Do you remember the night I invited you guys over to watch that ‘end times’ movie A Thief in the Night? I want you to know that I only wanted to introduce you [...]

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Here is THE PAPER (warning: long)

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful “than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Matt. 3:11 NIV) Dotted across the hillside, sitting on blankets, all forty thousand [...]

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Resonsibilty and Privilege

Sometimes I when I think of myself as a mother, I am blasted in the face with cold water. I am shocked that God, knowing me the way He does, would give me this responsibility. Usually, I’m just trucking along, being Sadie’s camp counselor, or maybe her big sister. Then it hits me: the urgency [...]

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The Paper

I have a 7 page research paper due for my class today. Although I’ve had nothing but enthusiasm for the class, this task seemed daunting to me. Two days ago, I decided that I just wasn’t going to do it. I tried to start it and ended up crying with the hugeness of it all. [...]

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Undeserving

Why is it that fights between people who love each other happen most often right before church? This past most holiest of Sundays, EASTER, Dan and I had this hideous fight in the car minutes before we walk into to church.  I was so sure I was right and church or no church, I WAS [...]

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