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The Travesty of Foam Pumpkins
I love fall. Without question, it is my favorite time of the year. There’s truly a lot to love about fall. There’s something uncannily beautiful about the blazing color of...
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Unicorns: The Surprisingly Not So Perfect Gift
When I was a girl, my beloved Grandma Whiteleather somehow got the notion that unicorns were my favorite thing in the entire world. They were not. My dear, sweet,...
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The Trouble With Tweeting
The other night, I found myself unable to sleep at 3 am. You might be wondering why. I know I was wondering why the other night as I stared defiantly at the alarm clock, watching the minutes press on...
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Intended For Good
I woke up today, Wednesday November 7th, 2012, with the full knowledge that nothing had really changed since yesterday. You know, yesterday. Election Day. Even though over $600 billion dollars were...
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How Love, Love, Love Saved The Day
Sidewalk Prophets – Love, Love, Love The time is now 12:02 am (for those of you wondering, yes, 12:02 am Daylight Savings Time.) I’m sitting at my kitchen table eating some weird soup with spinach and...
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Livin’ Like Boomer
Some of you may remember I wrote a few weeks back about how I was experiencing a significant case of the doldrums. Well, that was in October and here it is, almost December, and I’m still feeling...
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27 Days of Christmas Music, Day 3: for King & Country’s ‘Baby Boy’
for King & Country – Baby Boy If you told me all about your sorrows I’d tell you about a cure If you told me you can’t fight the battle There’s a Baby Boy who won the war The war was won by a Baby...
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27 Days of Christmas Music: Day 3, Rhett Walker Band’s O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Rhett Walker Band – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Last Sunday marked the first Sunday in Advent. Oh, how I love Advent. It’s such a beautiful time of the year, filled with the anticipation and preparation...
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27 Days of Christmas, Day 4: TobyMac’s This Christmas (Father to the Fatherless)
I had a so-traditional-it’s-crazy kind of upbringing as a child. My Mom, Sandy, left her job as an elementary school teacher to stay home with my brother, sister, and I in our rural Indiana farmhouse....
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27 Days of Christmas Music, Day 5: Mandisa’s Christmas Makes Me Cry
Matthew West – Christmas Makes Me Cry – feat. Mandisa I’m going to be completely frank for the next few minutes. For a lot of people out there, Christmas sucks. Harsh as this may sound, you know as...
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Unchangeable
You know who I’m super envious of this time of year? Those people (you know who you are!) who wake up two days after Christmas and all signs that Christmas ever took place… gone. The tree is kaput. The...
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Parker’s Story
I always love the movies when someone sees someone from afar at the beginning of a movie, and they instantly know from that moment on that this one person is really, really special. Then, the rest of...
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