“…I got all excited thinking it could happen this Saturday.” My coworker Wendy leaned back in her chair, still smiling from the laughter that had just filled the break room over the confusion caused by thinking one trail name and saying another. “The weather’s supposed to be good.” I chimed in. “You wanna do it […]
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A Letter to My Younger Self on my 25th Birthday
Why, hello there. I remember you. I see you sitting there with your unruly hair, blues eyes that are changing to green rimmed by glasses, sitting there scribbling away in your journal. The words that fly from your pen are all about your schoolwork, friends, snowboarding adventures, love of and longing for music, your frustrations, […]
20 Things I’ve Learned from 20 Years with Jesus
Years I’ve worked at my job: 3. Years I’ve owned a car: 2.5. Years I’ve had a driver’s license: 6. Years since I learned to snowboard: 13. Years since I started playing the piano: 16. Years since I graduated high school: almost 6. As a 24 year old, there aren’t many things that I can […]
2015 in Review: Adventure Awaits
The design of the journal I filled last year is all about travel and adventure…during the year I thought cynically a few times how inappropriate such a journal was for me, a girl who has never been south of West Virginia or west of Wisconsin and has never even flown in an airplane. Adventure does […]
Old Year, New Mercies
I know I’m a bit late to the party with my end of the year post, but I enjoy this chance to review some of the highlights and shadows of the year before it slips too far away, so I’m sharing it anyway. 🙂 2014. This year will not go down in history as one […]
Why, Hello Again…
Three months and thirteen days. That’s how long it’s been since my last post here. How terrible of me! Yes, I must admit, I have fallen waaayyy off the writing bandwagon the past several weeks. But I’m getting back on again and hoping going to ride longer and farther than ever before with this blogging […]