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Grace in Small Things (GiST): October 24, 2011

Last week was rough for all of us in my office, and this week my fiance leaves for another long training exercise – his last one prior to his Afghanistan deployment early next year. I want to start the new week off with the right mindset, which is why today’s GiST post is an important [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Go Cards!

My 3 Favorite Men & Me at Coors Field, 2011

A Wordless Wednesday post dedicated to the St. Louis Cardinals and my 3 favorite men. Go [...]

GiST: September 19, 2011

My new fiance (in case you missed it, I got engaged less than a month ago) is an Army officer, and I’m struggling to adjust to life on this side of a military relationship.
Since I moved to Colorado in mid-August, he and I have been apart more than we’ve been together. There have been out-of-state [...]

Breakfast in Indonesia

My memories of Asia are sometimes sparked by the most common things. This morning, for instance, distinct memories came to me of an Indonesian breakfast as I was eating my own breakfast here in small town Missouri.
Fresh cage-free eggs, unpasteurized cow milk (just milked from the cow on Thursday), and hot tea sat on my [...]

The Eternal Question

“Why on earth did you move from New York City to rural Missouri?”
I’ve been reading some C.S. Lewis lately, and he summarized very eloquently a part of my reason for moving “home” that I’d not yet been able to put into words:
…This is, I think, one little part of what Christ meant by saying that [...]

A “Green” Bathroom

One of my smaller goals lately was to paint and decorate my new bathroom in all “green” or repurposed materials. It turns out that “green” is pricey (read: $99 for a hemp shower curtain), so I did a lot more repurposing than I did buying “green”.
The bathroom has dated pale yellow tiling, giving me two [...]