Empty Inkwell

Yep… I’m still alive, read­ers. What can I say? The days have been pass­ing way too quickly! Just a few days after I returned from Lost Canyon, my hus­band, Cora and I got on a plane and flew up to Wash­ing­ton State to visit my par­ents and sis­ters for a few days, and to attend a wed­ding in Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton. We just […]

Rem­i­nisc­ing about school sup­plies and ele­men­tary school yes­ter­day got me think­ing about school in gen­eral, which of course led to my col­lege years. I have to admit: I really miss col­lege. By now, some of you are prob­a­bly begin­ning to notice I’m not your aver­age twenty-something year-old, and are think­ing: ok… she likes crummy weather, the smell […]

I was at Tar­get today. While wan­der­ing the aisles I passed by their annual dis­play of fall school sup­plies. If you’ve ever been in a tar­get between the months of July and Sep­tem­ber, I’m sure you’ve seen it—pretty hard to miss—an entire sec­tion of the store is cleared out in order to stock bins full of glue […]

Noth­ing beats excel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice… really. It’s so refresh­ing to feel under­stood, val­ued, appre­ci­ated, and well… served. There was a let­ter from our insur­ance car­rier in the mail today. I think most would agree: deal­ing with insur­ance is usu­ally less than pleasant—nobody really wants to pay any­body and it can some­times be like pulling teeth to make […]

I woke up this morn­ing to a hazy light peek­ing through the blinds in my bed­room win­dow; the gray­ish light made me think it was much ear­lier than it really was (thank you Cora for let­ting me sleep ‘til 8:30). I picked Cora up and made my way to the liv­ing room. I looked out the slid­ing glass […]

So it’s true what they say about babies and lit­tle kid­dos… they’re so much more inter­ested in the “non-toy” (the bag, the card­board box, the shoe sit­ting right next to their pile of toys) than the real thing. A few weeks ago, Cora was play­ing with a Rex (from Toy Story) stuffed ani­mal that her Uncle Jonathan […]

I began this post prior to the start of today’s match against Ghana, but between my six-month old lit­tle one and other to-do’s on a Sat­ur­day morn­ing, it didn’t get fin­ished by game time, so I told myself: win or lose, you will fin­ish (and post) what you began. So although we now know that team USA […]

Think about the one sound that you absolutely can­not stand… it sends chills up your spine, shiv­ers to your shoul­ders, and makes you grind your teeth (when it’s real bad). Are you think­ing about it? Maybe you have more than one? Ok, now stop. If you’re like me, you shook your head just think­ing about […]

I pur­chased earth­quake insur­ance today. I’ve been mean­ing to do so for about the past two months now—ever since an offer for the pol­icy showed up in my mailbox—conveniently around the same time San Diego started rockin’ with earth­quakes. Lately it’s been almost a daily occurrence—okay maybe not that much. But seri­ously, when you’re talk­ing earthquakes—natural […]

Don’t let any­one look down on you because you are young, but set an exam­ple for the believ­ers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. This morn­ing my church held a spe­cial “Pro­mo­tion Sun­day” ser­vice to honor the high school seniors as they “grad­u­ate” from the youth pro­gram, and to wel­come incoming […]