The Graduate

“… so that means I’ll be home alone,” I said to Alisa across the table. And in her pithy way that I just love and adore but hate at the same time, she said “yeah, you probably need it!” Haha. But she was right. Something always happens when you have a whole house to yourself, [...]

My Sophomore Year – a journey through the classic genres

Lyric: I arrived back on campus with an innocent joy in my step and a bright smile on my face. I had a new roommate, a new job as an admissions host, a $360 commission check from Mary Kay, and food in my cupboard I had purchased myself. I was unaware of roommate drama, of [...]

Nostalgic

I think we always tend to get nostalgic at the end of things… This semester especially. Although I have a paper for every class – and for one class, two! – I sit here strangely free from stress. Rather I reflect back on the freshman that first came in to this university. I’m not sure [...]

The Greatest Adventure

I’m on an Adventure. It unfolds moment by moment as I choose to walk into God’s purpose. I’m running in it — full-speed ahead. It’s foggy right in front of my face by the path beneath my feet is clearly marked: Love God, Love People. My heart pumps and the adrenaline courses through my veins. [...]

Career Conference is my Women’s Retreat

March is Women’s Month. That’s why there are so many women’s retreats in March. Is it coincidence, then that Mary Kay has planned their Career Conference to always be in March? Who knows. As Laurie talked to me over the phone… the image that I had in my head was all the girls over at [...]

the Art of Music

Twelve dollars. I thought that seemed a little steep to pay for a high school choir concert. But once the show choir started dancing swing and the woman’s choir sung a Korean folk song, I realized that this was more than a show. I pay over a thousand dollars for 3 hours a week to [...]

Reflections on Hollywood

We drove onto the 101 – Hollywood Fwy it reads beneath the black numbers – and we see LA. Suddenly buildings clustered close together emerge from the skyline nestled closely among other mis-matched buildings thrown together as if a drawer of miscellaneous junk had been thrown into a pile on the floor. The excitement rises. [...]

An Allusion to ‘Every Time We Touch’

My heart broke a little– along with my pride –when she told me I should just think of he and I as Friends until he told me otherwise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QDNC4jPs So when he held out his hand for me to hold I took it. And after re-aranging our interlocking fingers so that my thumb rested on top and his pinky [...]

Being in Dr. Biermann’s class

He stands at the front of the class dressed in all black and cunningly demands     Our souls should shine gold     like Hesoid’s most precious metal:             To read not just to finish our reading             or just skim over pages before class             or use sparknotes                     But to read in order to [...]

Packed full of Knowledge

“I love packing my mind full of knowledge,” I said optimistically to Faith after explaining to her about my 3 English classes this semester, as well as one of Jeff Lewis’s class, and my ISP training, and my Honors seminar class. Today has been one of those days. After the first few class sessions and [...]