Monthly Archives: July 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 … Continue reading
Filed under family
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under poetry and prose
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 … Continue reading
Filed under confessions, spirituality
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 … Continue reading
Filed under confessions, dreams and realities
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 … Continue reading
Filed under slavery, spirituality
