This entry, modified as you read below, was included in my 2013 Sophie Kerr Prize Portfolio, which earned finalist honors.As long-time readers will know, I hate Lent. Someone told me that Lent was a time when God draws back, separates Himself from us, if you will, for us to prepare for Christ’s resurrection. And so I always felt that distance, ( Read more... )

The CF scholarship I entered a while back prints these booklets that have all the finalists' essays and creative projects in them, and sends a truckload out to everyone featured in it. Last night, Mom and I were paging through them and she commented, "It's interesting how many of these feature Bible quotations or references to faith in general ( Read more... )

My last entry is me struggling to come to terms with how God feels about homosexuals, and accordingly how I should feel about the same-sex marriage bill that just passed the Maryland senate. I have no qualms from a secular perspective (separation of church and state, freedom of religion, non-discrimination inherent in the Constitution, for example ( Read more... )

This isn't what I should be doing right now. I should be doing any one of a number of homework assignments, or cleaning my room, or even having a snack. But, no. I am writing a blog post.

This is in relation to Maryland's proposed same-sex marriage bill and, more directly, this post from a few days ago. In that post, I basically went in the Bible ( Read more... )

We are required to keep current on international affairs for my world politics class, so this morning I went and checked BBC like I usually do. And then I had extra time, so I went to this wonderful site, Patch.com, which is hyper-local news from my hometown. I read around a bit and then came to an article about a proposed same-sex marriage bill in ( Read more... )

Ideally, the title would've been written as "A Writing Revolution", to play off of WAC's marketing slogan. But, alas, we work with what we have.

Tomorrow (10/20) is National Day On Writing, and I am really excited about it. We're doing some flash fiction prompts, post secret, impromptu readings, and all sorts of awesome writing-related things. You ( Read more... )

Remember my prom date? From my 4-H club? Well, he and his family had been wanting to take me to Friendly's as a thank-you thing, but we were both ridicuously busy this summer. So, instead, Derek and I had ice cream at their house, and we also watched a movie. Which movie, you ask? Left Behind

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Hi people! Today is a glorious day, isn't it? I certainly think so ( Read more... )

...a long letter. I hope you read it. Really. You being 1)congresspeople, not just from my own state but all over the US 2)pundits 3)the public at large. Anyone who'll listen. And really listen, not just read it, dismiss it as 1)some niave teenager's ramblings 2)weird Internet stuff 3)any combination thereof ( Read more... )