I don’t like putting myself – or other people – in boxes.
Yet I have a strange fascination for personality tests.
I’m not sure how to reconcile these two quirks. Perhaps the best way is to admit that while personality definitions are enlightening, they can never fully describe a person since we are all different and, I [...]
Archive for September, 2009
inside an open box
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged links, philosophical on September 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
what defines us?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, philosophical, quotes, writing on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday I read an article about fiction writing on a writing blog I recently discovered. As someone who has written fiction in spurts for years, I could identify with the author’s sentiments – to some extent. I’ve never made writing the focus of my career, but there is a possibility that it will become more [...]
is the grass always greener…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BFA, philosophical, transition, travel, wittlingen on September 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…on the other side of the ocean?
When in Germany, I wanted a constant visual reminder of my beautiful Tennessee home. Now, back in Tennessee, I want to look at my computer every day and see Wittlingen, my other home. Am I always longing to be where I am not? Do I constantly wish for something [...]
to-do lists
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged to-do lists on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m a list-maker. It’s the only thing that keeps me on track to accomplish tasks that must be done. Without a to-do list, tasks float nebulously above my head in a cloud, never getting accomplished because I don’t remember they’re there. When I grab them from the air, one by one, and pin them down [...]
this is my brain on germs
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I hate how sickness makes me so blah and unmotivated. One would think – or at least hope – that the disruption of my brain would make me more creative. Maybe if I had a fever, I would be. Past experience implies otherwise, though; when I have a fever, I am knocked flat for several [...]
costumes, photos, and memories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BFA, transition, wittlingen on September 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Recently, I had a conversation with some friends about dressing up in costumes. We pretty much agreed that dressing up is fun, and that we miss doing it. I couldn’t help remembering the opportunities I had to dress in various costumes for different events when I worked at BFA. Tonight, I started browsing through old [...]
gratefulness and real life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faith, transition on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems automatically human to pine over the things we do not have instead of giving thanks for what we do enjoy. At least, it is that way for me. Scripture talks plenty of giving thanks, of being content in whatever state I find myself, and of “rejoicing always”…always is a sweeping term (I Thes. [...]
reading aloud = important
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged quotes, teaching on September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the biggest mistakes we make as parents and teachers is to stop reading out loud to our children when they reach the age of reading faster independently. In doing so, not only do we deprive them of the opportunity to hear these all-important reliably correct, and sophisticated language patterns, we lose the chance [...]
looking back…to the present
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BFA, faith, philosophical, wittlingen on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I like to reread old journal entries. Okay, often I like to. Almost every time I write in my paper journal, I flip backward to reread some account of what I was feeling a week ago, a month ago, or five months ago. (Not quite a year, since I started my current paper journal [...]
…at six years old?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is amazing and inspiring. Have a happy holiday weekend.
