The past few days have been a blur of incessant napping, interrupted only to take two caplets of tylenol every six hours. There’s a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad flu bug circulating here at BFA, and I’ve been down with it since Monday night. Today there were over 60 students home from school, 5 from our [...]
Archive for January, 2008
attack of the evil virus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flu on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
listening and hearing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about listening. We do it every day without giving it a thought. I am a listener, but am I a good listener?
Yesterday morning I opened A Year With Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the books I picked up in the States, and read this paragraph:
Just as our love for God begins [...]
pirates of wittlingen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged wittlingen on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It started when Rachel stole posters of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom from the area of the first floor formerly known as the Closet (now known as Davy Jones’s Locker). She filled their sink with water and left some toy boats floating in it. Then she left a ransom note demanding that the Locker’s inhabitants [...]
peeking my head out
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I feel like I’m peeking my head out from under a rock, so to speak. The “real” blogging world is new to me, as I’ve only ever had a Xanga and a LiveJournal and Facebook. Somehow, those seem less “professional.” Here, to imprint my words on an artistic green backdrop (not created by me, I [...]
