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“Hey Mom,” he pipes up from the back seat of our (smokin’ hot) minivan. “Yep?” I reply. “How old do you think I have to be to be a rock star?” “Uuuummm…I don’t know. Maybe 25?” His face falls. “Oh. I was hoping you would say 8.” “Well, you can be a kid rock star if you […]
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She stood up on stage and spoke softly into the microphone. “For you were called to freedom, brethren,” she said in a reverent voice. And that was it. She didn’t finish the verse but rather, stopped there. Her point was to explain to us, her audience, that God calls us to freedom – financial freedom. […]
[Continue reading...]When I was a senior in college, a fire ignited inside me. It was a love for the written word that I didn’t really know was in me. It was lit by a few professors who saw something I didn’t and urged me to think bigger. It was fanned by a fiancee who made me believe […]
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We have a snow day today…again. I’m trying not to complain. I’m trying to have a good attitude and remember how magical and exciting snow days were when I was a kid. I’m trying not to dwell on the fact that Lee left this morning for San Diego for the weekend. I’m trying to ignore […]
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Alternately titled: Why I locked my three year old in his room. It was 8:00 and I had just returned home from a rehearsal when I went back to my bathroom to brush my teeth and change into my fat pants comfy clothes. It was then I heard the breathing. Like a miniature Darth Vadar […]
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Intentional This is a word that is following me around quite a bit lately. I hear it, read it, think it and sleep it. Intentional. What does it mean to be intentional? I went to Webster’s Dictionary to look for a clear defination of intentional. Here’s what I learned: Webster’s Dictionary isn’t a lot of help. […]
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Last night, Lee and I assumed our positions on the couch the jar of Nutella between us for a little relaxation in front of the television. Since LOST went off the air, we just haven’t been able to get into another show. We liked Glee for a little while, until it became an over-sexed after school special and […]
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*random pictures will be interspersed throughout this most random of posts. Consider yourselves forewarned… When I was a kid, I thought for sure the term “Jay Walker” meant someone who walked across the street naked. I think that stream of thought stemmed from the phrase “Nekkid as a Jay Bird,” which, being from a good […]
[Continue reading...]Like everyone else in the country, my heart breaks at Saturday’s horrific shooting in Arizona. There is no sense to be made of six deaths. There is no sense to be made of the gunman’s frame of mind. There is, of course, plenty to debate, but in the end, no sense can be made of […]
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