When we first moved to Dallas, we made some colorful friends who were actors at Scarborough Renaissance Festival- King Henry and a Contessa, to be exact. During October, the Scarborough Fair grounds become a spooky maze of haunted houses, Scary-oke, expensive food vendors, and a throng of tweens looking to snuggle up to their crush …
Tuesday, 7/11/2023, Nashville Airport 2:08 pm I wasn’t anxious about this until we popped open the back of my sister’s van. It’s not the actual flying that concerns me. The Baby is almost chronically un-anxious, as in, he is not anxious even when he probably should be, like when he tries to drown himself by …
January 23, 2023 Dear Mr. Sedaris, My son, {The Baby}, came screeching into the world via an emergency c-section at 26 weeks- a two-pound potato whose vital organs needed lots of assistance to keep him alive. I met him for the first time four months later, when his birthmother invited me to visit the Neonatal …
I remember talking about atheism and agnosticism in my world religions class in high school. In my little conservative corner of West Texas, we didn’t spend much time talking about the godless heathens, but I remember the description of Clockmaker god, who designed the world, perfectly calibrated all of it’s gears and dials, and then …
Let me preface the beginning of this series with a few things: I’m gonna take weekends off for my “writing every day” goal in November. I can do this because I’m a grown ass woman and I want to. I want to explicitly acknowledge that I have AMAZING parents who did the best with what …
Last August, my little family met my parents in Estes Park. We have done this trip every couple of years since I was a kid. We stay in cabins and hike and explore and breathe in the fresh mountain air. COVID made things a little different, but we were just happy to escape Dallas for …
Well, today the Wise family said hello to a new bed and goodbye to two of The Baby’s teeth. A few months ago, we started the laborious process of getting a SleepSafe bed approved through The Baby’s insurance because his crib had become unsafe. He was able to stand up in it and when he …
The Baby turned five this week. It’s crazy. All of those five years tend to blur together. After all, time flies when you’re drowning in medical chaos (just kidding…kind of). On the night of his birthday, our dinner conversation centered around remembering all of his firsts- the first time he sat up, the first solid …
(You can listen to an audio version of this post here.) I went to David’s Bridal today to purchase a bridesmaid’s dress for a friend’s wedding next summer. She had a dress already picked out in the system so they pulled her profile up and I followed the very nice saleslady to the racks laden …
(I realize this is very lengthy so I have strategically placed pictures of smiling animals throughout the piece so that you can mark your place if you need to take a break and come back to it. At my sister’s suggestion, I’ve also made an audio version of this blog. You can download/stream it by …
I grew up in West Texas- land of wide-open spaces, sky high teen pregnancy rates, and a colorblind racial ideology that masks racism instead of confronting it. In colorblind ideology, it is impolite to talk about someone’s race. I remember hearing a story about a friend who was trying to tell her son which store …
I just got back from San Francisco. I went to (hides face) a Christian conference. I found myself hesitant to tell people that it was a Christian conference because of the connotations of that. My sense is that many Christian conferences are lame attempts at pep rallies for God, the adult version of church camp, …
“What was I thinking?” I thought as I stared forlornly into the mirror. I should have known better than to impulsively stop at the hair salon directly adjacent to the Tom Thumb, still clutching my bag of avocados. I was hoping for a cute haircut before I left on my 10th anniversary weekend trip. Instead, …
I was a mere 21 years old when I got married. My uncle officiated our wedding. Before the wedding, my then-fiancee, now-husband, Alex, and I drove down to Corpus to do some premarital counseling sessions and stay with my aunt and uncle. After one of these sessions, Alex and I got ready to leave and …
I went to a vigil in Balch Springs for Jordan Edwards last week. It was everything you would want a vigil to be- beautiful and sad and moving and comforting. Like most, I was horrified by Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice’s deaths. I have been deeply affected before by deaths caused by police brutality, but …
I come before you tonight spiritually, emotionally, and physically exhausted. Today was a hard day and my first class is tomorrow. I am in the midst of God’s “tough love” part of my life and it hurts; it really does. I gave a friend a gift that took a lot of time and effort and … Continue reading
So if you’re like me, even a little (for example, if we have the same knee caps or something) then you would enjoy junior high ministry because I enjoy it with everything that is in me (yeah, even my knee caps). Here are some reasons why i love it so much (via pictures from our … Continue reading
Our dead pet bird that has been hanging upside down on the porch since we moved in fell down yesterday. Its lone leg is still stuck and I, for one, am very pleased that we still have a piece of him to remember him by. Continue reading
I’m sorry for the blah entries lately. To be quite honest, that’s how the quiet times have been lately. Consistent but blah. Consistently blah. I think I just get into this “Bible” rut where I just aimlessly search the Word for something to motivate me or something that I can “do”. Then I realize that … Continue reading
Well, you didn’t know this but I’ve been performing an experiment the last couple of days to see if I could actually live by myself. The answer: Yes, I could but I would be so BORED all the time it wouldn’t really be worth it. I have watched alot of tv lately and I don’t … Continue reading
This just in: Among the famous people who share my birthday, John Dewey Mickey Mantle Viggo Mortensen AND Snoop Dogg. If you would like to see who shares your birthday, click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and then type your barfday into the search engine. Continue reading
The light that I’m sitting under right now makes me look really tan. I’ll be sitting here for the rest of my life. Come visit me. Anyway, I thought it was time to take a trip down nostalgia avenue and do one of my classic “Here’s what happened and here’s how that concept applies to your … Continue reading
So last semester, I had these plants that I obsessed over and annoyed my roommates over and watered obsessively and dreamt about in my sleep. Let’s look at some pictures of them now: Talk about a waste of time. I guess this is what Jesus meant by that whole “store your treasure in heaven” thing. … Continue reading
Sorry, Santa goblets, but what goes up must come down (at least in the way of Christmas decorations). Continue reading
I think it’s time to head back to College Station. But in the meantime…look at this long lost distant distant cousin i found! Did I mention it was time to go back to College Station? Continue reading
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