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, [...]
Entries from July 2009
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 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 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 [...]
