Yearly Archives: 2012

About eight years ago, I was required to sit in front of a video camera and tell an unknown person why they should accept me into their graduate program.  I recall the afternoon vividly.  It was a Monday–the day Chad and I had off work.  I remember sitting on a chair in the living room […]

View full post »

loading...

I have spent the last few days trying to decide how I want to make this introduction.  How do I adequately introduce a woman for whom words are so very inadequate?  A woman whose spirit is so much bigger than her small stature?  A woman whose impact reaches so far that I’m certain her influence […]

View full post »

loading...

Things change. There are times when change happens in a moment.  Other times, it takes a life time.  Always, though, things change.  Things change especially if you live where we live.  Last week the sun shined brightly in the sky.  The warmth of it’s rays reached far enough to point the gauge of the thermometer […]

View full post »

loading...

I was up until 1 a.m. last night spilling my insides into a reflective blog post about life, perspective, and hard stuff.   This morning, not only is my blog no longer updating in the blog roll, but last nights post has disappeared.  Perhaps today is not the day.  Perhaps that post is for another day.  […]

View full post »

loading...

  “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing […]

View full post »

loading...