Tag: vulnerable
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Wish That
Sometime toward the beginning of this year, my roommate was listening to a teaching (that’s the over-simplification of what it was) and the speaker was using the example of certain types of cicadas that come out every 17 years and then asked the listeners what they were doing 17 years ago since the world looks…
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A Whole Lifetime (A Letter to my Dad)
*** I would apologize that I have been MIA after promising to post once a week, but in my defense, I did start writing a story again! Also, I am currently on our annual “besties trip” and have had some weird life things happen that I will not be visiting during this post. However, maybe…
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A Different Answer
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? That question of the day seems to be convicting no matter which way I come at it, but the way it got me was probably different than the way most people would see it. For me, the problem isn’t saying no…
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It’s Not What I Want…
I have a confession… I lied. Not to you guys, specifically, but I need to air out my correction more publicly. Last week while my mom and I were cleaning a house, the client and his wife were talking to us and he was telling me of this vision he had for unmarried people in…
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Thoughts From The Peninsula
Yesterday was a rough day emotionally. It was full of relational bridging and life-or-death decisions (I don’t want to revisit that right now, but it wasn’t me or any of my loved ones, in case anyone gets concerned). Yesterday was full of connection with good friends and love from overbearing dogs who missed their Auntie…
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The Practice of Slowing
One of the things the Lord has been teaching me this year is the importance of Sabbath in my life. My Sabbaths usually consist of turning off my phone, putting it in the downstairs bedroom Friday night after church, making banana bread every other week (when I have the ripe bananas from a client-friend), going…
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New Year, New Me?
Happy New Year!And also, Merry Christmas…And also… Happy MLK Day…And also… Yeah… sorry about that. Definitely meant to blog a whole lot more over the last month. See, what had happened was… I didn’t actually get less busy like what usually happens in the month of January. But I do have a good reason for…
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What AI Taught Me About Myself
On Thanksgiving, there was an ad during one of the football games about ChatGPT. On a whim, I decided to download it and see how it perceived my current writing project. It was a WILD experience seeing my characters shown back to me in a way that was like taking a personality test for them.…
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Quirks: Everybody’s Got Them
This weekend I am helping with my church’s school play. I’ve helped with them in the past, but this year I am more emotionally involved and therefore need an outlet. (Good thing I already have this blog 😉 ) I was thinking about the play tonight while trying to wind down and instead my brain…
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“Go Hard.”
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had a culmination of all my inner frustrations and disappointments hit me and cause such an intense blockage in my soul that it was what my pastor likes to call “a crisis of character.” And boy howdy, it was that. When I start to daydream about running away from…
My Social Media-less Life 