simply me and jeans

Did you ever go to a dance when you were in junior high?  You know…one of those awkward parties where the boys stood on one side of the room and the girls stood on the other whispering and giggling as they glanced over at one another. The music would play for what seemed like forever […]

How is it possible?  How can a memory hold such power that the thought of it stirs up emotion that causes goosebumps to form on her arm?  How could such an insignificant memory have such a profound impact on years of her life? How can a grown woman hold such a small memory inside her […]

 I talked to a friend today.  She’s more than a friend.  She’s family. She talked about her life and her pain and her regret and her fear and her hope. She’s broken. And I love her. But she has secrets.  So many, in fact, that even though she’s an open book and will tell her […]

You ask me to open my hands and offer you everything. Every treasure that you’ve placed in them. Every joy that I’ve known. Every love that’s sustained me. Every gift that you’ve bestowed. Every beat of my heart. Every song I long to sing.  Every fear that weighs me down.  Every tear that’s fallen in […]

I started to write a little ditty about my shopping experience this past Saturday. Mind you, the Saturday that happened to be a week and a half before Christmas. (What were we thinking?) I worked it and played with it and it actually made me laugh.  Maybe because I know what a nightmare it was […]

Words are strange things.  Simply scribblings that have been accepted by the masses to mean something and whose meaning, in this day and time, can just as easily and arbitrarily be changed. Some of us use them with the precision of a surgeons’ knife to cut to the heart quickly and almost imperceptibly.  Some of […]

I like country music. I like how it tells a story that average people understand.  I like that it stirs up emotions and memories in my mind.  I like that it often portrays a life-style that holds to traditional values  and that it can make me  bust out dancing when I hear a familiar riff.

  N.T. Wright “After You Believe-Why Christian Character Matters” Lately, I’ve noticed that many who claim to be Christians have a lack of desire to grow, learn or  mature in their faith.  It’s obvious in those that spew out hate, bigotry and ignorance in the name of Christianity; but, I’ve become increasingly convicted that it has […]

It was surreal, really.  We were in the cutest little nook at a pub near Leichester Square in London when 3 guys named Steve showed up.  The fact that we were in London at all was unbelievable, but the fact that my husband, Steve, met those three guys in a pub so crowded that people were […]

I heard about a book the other day called  “What Your Childhood Memories Say About You . . . and What You Can Do About It” by Dr. Kevin Leman. The premise, as far as I can tell from the little I heard, is that you can tell a lot about a person’s main  struggle […]