Shepherds and Pancakes

The year 2010 was old and grey, and it was the first semester of my senior year (around the same time I discovered chai lattes). I was curled up with a thick, dark blue paperback belonging to my Advanced Placement English Language and Composition class. For the first...

Poached

Today I remembered words that I wrote three years ago. It’s all a circus act, I’m the conductor with the top hat… there’s monkeys and elephants to control, mice and rabbits to protect. There’s stage directors who help everyone be in the...

Three Cheers for Self-Control

  Downton Abbey. I’ll just go straight out there and say I watched the Season 3 premiere tonight. For you Americans that have not been able to locate a website to play it and for Commonwealth-landers who haven’t been able to watch it, NO spoilers are...

My Immanuel.

You may have heard as often as I… we need to have our heart’s desires fulfilled in God before we love someone else. Especially in guy-girl relationships. Rather than bringing a broken, insecure heart to my boyfriend then husband…I have to be satisfied...

All Gushy Inside

Women get a bad reputation for falling love with love stories. Pride and Prejudice. You’ve Got Mail. Anne of Green Gables. Guys, if you’ve been with a group of girls at a movie night where any one of those movies (or others) have been pulled out, you can...

the heart unfolding.

      I watched a love story today that nearly melted my heart. Oh, I didn’t used to be like this. I was oh-so-wise not to be overwhelmed by something as trivial as romantic love. I was closed up as much as I could, not wanting to feel too deep for I was afraid...