December 2011
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another christmas
it’s the evening of December 25th and the last of our visiting family has departed for their respective homes. the holidays are over.
This season went fast considering we had hardly any snow at all (which is a miracle for Iowa). It was the strangest Christmas season ever because it didn’t at all feel like it - at all! As my cousin Ashley put it, “It’s like Thanksgiving,...
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I’m not even sure if I’ll keep this post up, but for now, it’s here.
Tonight, I’m grateful. I’m thankful for the perspective I’m receiving from the people around me. It gives hope, vision, and tenacity.
Life can be everything you desire it to be - even with God. In fact, especially with Him.
The happiest and most fulfilled people I know do two things well:...
best of 2011
The year is fast coming to a close and as such, every website you know and love is counting down the tops of the year: music, movies, and Internet memes. I throughly enjoy reading “best of the year lists” so I thought - why not do one of my own?
So without further ado, here are a few things I fell for in 2011.
Originally, I had planned on doing just a list of my favorite songs of...
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain
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It began on a cold December night….
Maybe it was the frigid air getting to our heads, but we decided to throw caution to the wind and rush downtown to attempt and snag last-minute tickets to Wicked. Well, I guess we owe that frigid air big time, because it worked! The box-office had several well-priced tickets left and we were soon happily seated somewhere in the middle of the...
