The Lying Language

I am a lover of language. I am not an anthropologist nor have I studied up on the history of language of any culture of people, but in the past 16 years I have come to love language. There are a few things I do know indefinitely about language: Language is mostly non-verbal. It is [...]

We aren’t communicating, we’re drowning things out.

It’s one of those nights again. The last day of the month. Gotta write this entry to meet this self issued deadline. It’s not like I never have anything to say until the last minute, it’s just that I don’t spend the time trying to figure out how to say it. I seem to always [...]

Happy Blogaversay to Me!

Congratulations! If you are currently my mother or father, then you have been following this blog for the last 365 and a quarter days. If you are any one of the terribly treasured four other followers, you’ve been here with me for a great length of this time as well. I look back now on [...]

This Year Has been a Good Year For…

The results are in! After taking an internal poll of the top 5 things 2011 has been good for a tentative list has been compiled. In no particular order, here they are: 1. Friendship If there’s anything I’ve gained this year, it’s good, solid, friendships. At the end of summer, I dreaded going back to [...]

Growing Up is Hard to Do

Dear Reader, I distinctly remember the day when my brother, Jordan, turned to me and said the second most disgusting thing to ever pass his lips, “This girl told me, back at school in Arkansas where I go to school and never leave to visit you, that P.M.S is a joke. A ploy, an excuse, [...]

It’s okay that your life is not a Katy Perry Song

Ehem, ehem, testing, testing, I have an announcement to make, the following statement may come as a shock to the masses, but it must be known: HIGH SCHOOL STEREOTYPES ARE REALLY NOT EVEN STEREOTYPES. I do not mean in the sense that the jocks, nerds, preps, and dorks caste system prevails, but in the sense [...]

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

In the 1940s when Stan Lee took to creating great superheroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk, he drew the rest of America to the water of his resonating imagination and the people drank. Stan Lee’s comics merely commented on and stimulated basic human desire for purpose. To be more than just common everyday [...]

Rules to a Zen Life

I have this beautiful friend named Crystal who has developed a list for herself to keep herself on track mentally and physically. She’s the yogurt eating, yoga class taking, yellow summer dress wearing, kind of girl who has an interesting view of the world. Not only that, but her deep spirituality is both inspiring and [...]

Now you see it, now you don’t.

A few weeks ago I was privileged with a 5 hour bus ride back to the cities from a Christian camp in Cook, Minnesota. On the way back we were all pretty tired and each took to periods of napping and spacing out. As I stared up out the bus seat window, I began to [...]

Beauty, Beauty, Beauty, Beauty, Rockin’ Everywhere.

I do not like girls. Not to confuse that with the less generalized statement, “I don’t like being a girl.” Don’t get me wrong, there are many joys to being a girl; the more obvious reasons being shaving, periods, and wearing makeup. Being a girl is not my issue, it’s girls in general I have [...]