Somewhere from age 24 to now it happened. That it that my friends said would happen. Growing up. Maturing. Now, I have always considered myself fairly mature for my young age. It happens when you’re a perfectionist and had the childhood I did. I got married at the ripe age of 19 [because "when you [...]
One of the things I wanted to do in my lifetime was have a photograph of mine published in a book. After the 2010 May flood, several of my photographs were used by the United Way of Nashville, Belmont University and other relief effort groups. The other day, United Way contacted me to get the [...]
Sunday night I went to bed aware of the strong storm approaching the middle Tennessee area. I reminded myself that I needed to get to work early enough to get a middle parking spot away from all the trees. Monday morning I got to work 10 minutes early. I was able to get a middle [...]
Love Wins is the new book by Rob Bell, in which, he asks some very important questions about our faith. This book has sparked much controversy. A few Saturdays ago, Rob Bell even managed to become a trending topic on twitter. Apparently, when you ask questions, you get called a universalist and are accused of [...]
There has been an absurd amount of controversy around Rob Bell’s new book, “Love Wins”. I have been reading blogs about it from people who have made judgements about him and the book before it even came out, calling him a Universalist and accusing him of heresy. Even one certain Christian author, childishly tweeting, “farwell [...]
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Like a scene from Flashforward, thousands of birds fell from the sky in Arkansas just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. Similar bird incidents have happened in Australia and Houston over the past several years. Along with the birds, thousands of drum fish were dead in about a 20 mile stretch of the Arkansas River. Unlike the [...]
Over the past year, and 24 years for that matter, I have learned some critical life lessons. Experiences have taught me a lot about myself, others and life around me. I am thankful for all of those experiences, even the trials. 1.) You can’t choose your family. People are not perfect. And you are born [...]
this year i drew our Christmas cards. nathan scanned them in and digitally colored them and added a background and text. i found it easy to draw nathan and the dogs, but had an extremely difficult time drawing myself. i looked at several pictures and tried my best to draw myself as best i could. [...]
I am slowly adding things to my list. I have accomplished two of the items. I know it may seem silly to have wanted to paint an abstract paiting… but it was challenging for me. I tend to be very precise and it is hard for me not to plan out something I am going [...]