Entries from July 2009

July 29, 2009

Does your grandma read your blog?

  As of tonight, my grandma reads my blog.   My grandma – or “Mamama,” as we call her – is one of those women who can make green beans that taste way better than yours.  She lives in a yellow farmhouse in South Carolina and when she tells you she’s been praying for you, [...]

July 27, 2009

And the winner is….

I’m rubbish. I’m aware I never chose a winner after last week’s little quiz.  Yes, it was Chandler from Friends who said, “You’re ruining moving day (for us)!”  You may remember it was the episode where Joey and Chandler beat Monica and Rachel at Ross’s made-up game show, and the guys won the girls’ apartment. [...]

July 23, 2009

This is what you do to me.

I think that I should like to see the world as you do.  All fresh and open, clean and bright; like a flower that has just bloomed, or the first page of a new journal – leather-bound, of course. One where you can start over, make it what you want for it to be. Hide [...]

July 22, 2009

Binding the Vanity of Creativity

Guest Blogger: Callie Mitchell Callie is a good friend of mine from college.  As students, we lived in a cute-but-oh-so-sketchy little house in Greensboro, NC.  We were designers, writers, painters, and photographers…but most of all we were friends. Callie now lives in Israel with her husband, Devin, and is an extremely gifted communicator and architect [...]

July 20, 2009

“You’re ruining moving day!”

On our anniversary this year, my husband made a list of all the things he loves about me.  One of my favorites?  He said he loves the way I have a special outfit for every occasion, kind of like Barbie. Let’s see…there’s DIY Faith (jeans with hole in the knee, plaid button-down, brown Chuck Taylors), [...]

July 14, 2009

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

Sometimes I feel like I’m prolonging the inevitable. Like there’s this thing I’m supposed to do – this person I’m supposed to be – and everything else I do is just putting off that One Thing. What’s that One Thing you think you’re meant for?

July 9, 2009

Where you lead, I will follow

Since moving out of our little bungalow at the beginning of June, we’ve been staying with my parents in their big white farm house in rural North Carolina.   We’ve got the upstairs all to ourselves, and lately, when I wake up in the mornings, Simon is nowhere to be found.  He runs or cycles [...]

July 8, 2009

Buy 1, Get 2 Free.

Did someone say “Sale”?   Well, sort of. A couple of weeks ago, my sister, Catherine, posted on a topic very near to her heart: Human Trafficking.  Catherine is involved with an organization called Triad Ladder of Hope, which works to end the slavery happening right in our own back yards. Slavery still exists, and [...]