The Flowers in Seattle
Never before in my life have I been physically stopped in my tracks by the scent of flowers. Never until I moved to Seattle.
An Argument for Driving through Flyover Country
I think you’ll come to appreciate the vibrancy of the human spirit that started living there because someone had to.
Enter Toph
I spent a good chunk of my prewriting time for this blog post keeping Satan at bay.
Stay Bold, Ponyboy
People go nuts over the fact that most people think they’re above average.
Here’s My Dirty Laundry
While I may have left the country a little more informed, I was mostly confused and overwhelmed about how to live life in a broken world with eight billion people who all needed food, clean water, shelter, education, and community.
Christianity at Present
Christianity did not remain relevant in the events of the world at large for two thousand years because of strict adherence to dogma.
Regina George is Not Stupid: And Other Thoughts on the Mean Girls Musical
In the movie, a skipping CD results in a boom box getting kicked in someone’s face. In the Broadway production, the song stops because of a wardrobe-malfunction-turned-social-media-scandal.
Mirrors and Windows
Because literature really is the better part of life.
Religious Not Crazy
The musty smell of those stairwells matters to me in a way that the bare truth of Evangelical forms of craziness never could.
Crocuses
Still, I’ve never felt the same level of attachment in any of these places that I’ve felt in Romania. When I step off of the plane in that country, it feels like I’ve come home.
