Prodding
Is this really a good idea? Am I jumping in alert and prepared or carelessly running tripping over my better judgment into something I should just leave … Continue Reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Fireflies
Learning, but at a weird in-between stage. For the most part, junior highers tend to be uncoordinated and awkward. Their limbs are growing too fast for them to handle, so they seem … Continue Reading
Pulp
“A failure is merely the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure.” – Drew Baylor, Elizabethtown* Kind of like people who say they aren’t afraid of heights, they are only afraid of falling, I’m … Continue Reading
Gave
I never heard it that way before: Just use what He gave you (Romans 12:6a) even if you can’t name or define it.* How things are named specified defined … Continue Reading
(Un)scramble
I can’t un s c r a m b l e the mess. Sometimes even once it’s outside my head, … Continue Reading
Warp
Anxiety feeds on my slowly developing confidence. I’m learning, but so far behind. Asked to do even more, I am honored excited and still questioning everything. It’s not that … Continue Reading
Spontaneity
Confusion taunts me taps me on one shoulder and sneaks around behind the other. Is the world suddenly different? Or is this some eccentric April Fool’s joke? I wonder if the water is safe. … Continue Reading
Yes
It was eleven years ago, the Saturday before Easter, just like today. He asked, and I said yes. I knew I loved Jeff, but I didn’t know what to expect. Sure, I had been told marriage takes work, and it’s … Continue Reading
Crush*
Inhaling loudly, she took a step toward the blinds on the sliding glass door. They were slanted, like she always kept them during the day now, so as long as she stood to the right, she could peek out and … Continue Reading
Eventuals
I see the way my words could be used – the possibilities the eventuals and the knotted snarled webs that start to form. It’s not as much about the strangers, but about … Continue Reading