A Letter
Dear Thirty-One, I thought it would be fair to write and inform you that you are going to have some very big shoes to fill. When Thirty and I first met, I wasn’t so sure about her. I mean, THIRTY....
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Today, I had what might be the best hair cut and color of my life. I’m not exaggerating, here, folks. It wasn’t anything drastic – a couple inches shorter, a shade darker – but when the 3 hour journey...
View ArticleChoral musings
I attended a performance of Handel’s Messiah, in its entirety, for the first time in my life tonight. I have heard portions of it and performed portions of it, but never the entire thing. It was...
View ArticleNew Mercies
I wrote a little while back about softening - how I felt that both my heart and my image have softened over the course of the last year. This was no small feat – a few key experiences in my life have...
View ArticleForebearance and Forgiveness
I have been learning a great deal about grace and gentleness in the last year or so. Much of it, perhaps, without even realizing it. It started with my second time through Gospel 101, an “intensive”...
View ArticleOverwhelmed
I am relatively certain that I have been in a constant state of overwhelmed-ness for the past 6 months or so. Overwhelmed by emotions – tears come far more easily these days. Overwhelmed by the...
View ArticleNew Year
It is July 2nd. For those not in the medical field, this merely means that it is 2 days before the Fourth of July. For me, and for most in the world of medicine, it is a whole new year. The academic...
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32
I turn 32 this weekend. For most, this is probably an uneventful age. 30 is big, maybe 35, certainly 40. But 32? It’s still your early 30s, you’ve adjusted to being in your 30s, no major milestones....
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A Bigger Story
I am not a terribly patient person. I am good at waiting in line, waiting for a table, waiting in a waiting room. I am not good at waiting on events without a pre-determined outcome or date of...
View ArticleAn Ode to My Friends
I have beautiful friends. I know I’m writing an unprecedented two days in a row, but I felt compelled to write this. So I am. My friends are amazing. I know everyone thinks that (just like everyone...
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Solo, not Alone
I took my first solo trip in the fall of 2000. I had been living in Madrid for a few months and was hitting that bizarre breakpoint of both feeling at home and wanting to go home. We had a 4 day break,...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye
I am in denial that I am leaving the South in 2 weeks, and especially that I am leaving Nashville. I have a far more poetic post in the works, but I needed some catharsis by way of...
View ArticleA Love Letter to the South
The red clay called me first, a land literally more colorful than my own Hot and muggy Drinking more than breathing with glasses and video cameras fogged and no see ‘ums swirling all around. It was...
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If You’ll Let Me Love You
I have been following Addie Zierman’s blog, How to Talk Evangelical, for a little under a year (I think), and am not overstating things to say that I am CRAZY EXCITED about her book which comes out...
View ArticleOut of the Darkness
In my church community group, we are currently in the midst of a book about prayer (A Praying Life). Prayer is… not my strong suit, and I am grateful for the way the book addresses some of my major...
View ArticleLead of Love
A year ago, almost to the day, I was convinced that I was going to move to Texas. I was also certain that I was SUPPOSED to move to my current midwestern location, but could not see the way that was...
View ArticleOrdinary Time
I wrote this in early January during what is considered by the liturgical calendar to be “ordinary time”. So it was more appropriately titled and themed at the time it was written, but my blog was...
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Chasing Spring
I went into Lent thinking I would make an effort to spend more time writing here, and instead ended up with a couple grueling 70 hour work weeks and a bad cold and a grant with a fast approaching...
View ArticleOn Kenya
I realized that while I wrote about my plans to go to Kenya, I never actually wrote about my time there. There’s no great reason for this, except to say that my time there was busy and full, and, as...
View Article-in-love.
As a stepdaughter, only child, and unmarried woman, I am familiar with the concept that you don’t have to be blood-related to be family. I have “adopted” (not really) family members of all kinds –...
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