So, I'll be the first to chuckle uncomfortably when my father totes Joel Olsteen to me. There is something dishonest about televangelism, about churches that are stadiums, about men who seem like charlatans selling panaceas (and best-sellers). That said, this e-mail has slowly circulated around my workplace, helping each person in turn. And I ( Read more... )

Friending MemeIt's time for Spring Cleaning! I'm going to go through and clean some people off my list that I either don't relate too or that don't post often. If you'd like to stay, as always, feel free to comment and I will keep you. Similarly, if you'd like to be taken off my friend's list, now's the time to speak up ( Read more... )

Go ahead, go ahead, smash it on the floor. Take whatever's left and take it with you out the door. See if I cry; see if shed a single sorry tear. Can't say that it's been that great, no in fact, it's been a wasted worried year...Take it as it comes and be thankful when it's done. There's so many ways to act and there's many shades of black. - ( Read more... )

We're caught in a landslide. The minutes come tumbling down and into an hour's time, within which a day's worth of work must be planned out and pan out for every week to be worth the weekends of downtime and months of ennui that kills and years of resentment of everyone's contentment, and you can't justify it, still...Now I'm walking on downtown ( Read more... )

If it gives you any idea how crazy my week was, I started this entry on Tuesday. I had a cold last week that just sucked all the energy right out of me. It wasn't so much the fact that I was stuffed up and sneezing, but that I felt like I had been run over by a truck. Even as recent as last night, I was so, so drained by it. I fell asleep at ( Read more... )

I'm scared about moving on and I'm scared to admit it, because admitting it would be like admitting that I've already given up on it and I haven't. I still have the motivation - to want more for myself, to gain independence, to move away from home for good, but I completely lack the support. When I moved to California, my cousin opened her home ( Read more... )

+ A belated golden birthday to my favorite boy drummer, Zac Hanson. Hope it was bangin ( Read more... )