its a funny thing, leaving the ocean. shaking the sand out of your shoes and hair and getting into a hot car to ride the hot miles back home. this reddening of skin and lightening ...
viathere are few things i enjoy more than seeing someone experience afresh and anew something ive long taken for granted.it happened with the song "passing afternoon," when i made my sister t...
there were plans for a $1 movie last night. at the old theater downtown where stale popcorn litters the aisles and the seats are threadbare. plans to sink deep into them and watch a mediocre movie wi...
theres a strange juxtaposition within me. i will sit for hours behind a textbook or computer screen, deeply immersed in academic jargon and long words. and i really, really like seminars, especially ...
if this were 03 and we were sixteen, i would look with anticipation to july and august. those balmy months spent without worry or school or stress or timelines. i would propose that we hop in the bac...
i know a man who has a brilliant daughter.fair-skinned with hair the color of late evening sun, she invented a contraption for veterans with phantom pain. she has been interviewed by the new york tim...
viathis morning my neck aches after staying up until eleven working on online training. a physical reminder that our bodies arent meant for sitting still for very long, much less for sitting cr...
this weekend was beautiful. we sent nanno off with a full military funeral, some special big band music, and a slideshow that didnt leave a dry eye in the room.in other news, pablo broke his leash on...
photo by my talented cousin jeff portarohe always told me i would be the next poet laureate, but for the life of me, i cant come up with the right words to tell you about my Nanno, sam.he was ...
we needed to stake our claim on the ground. to mix the dirt between our fingers and remind ourselves from where we came. the urge to plant a garden hit us only a week ago, on a walk down a litt...
you know, it takes a lions heart to make it through this life.to make it through the day-in, day-out hustle and bustle. the suppers around the table. the late nights in front of the television. the s...
viaone day in september, there was an afternoon where the cool, midday sun hung in the trees for hours.i was fourteen and still swinging in the old tire hanging off the tree near the creek behi...
so they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night...at dawn, Jesus was standing on the beach, but the disciples couldnt see who he was...when they got there, they found breakfast waitin...
theres a meadow that runs beside and behind our little cottage. every spring, the wildflowers start popping up. we were back there last night, working on the garden, and i couldnt help but pic...
viayesterday, robert and i were walking out by the muscadines and we spotted a pretty little plot of land that would be just right for a vegetable garden. its near the tree but not under it, so...
i realized something driving home last night.every moment that really means something in my life, those big guttural turning points, has a song attached to it. theres the first time i realized i coul...
and the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred an hundred and fifty days. (gen. 7: 24) after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. and the ark rested in the seventh mo...
gray clouds have shrouded our corner of carolina this week. but yesterday afternoon was different. theres a sweet sip of time before dusk when the sun dances across the back field. when my prayer tre...
love,at bible study last week, when we went around the room and listed each persons gifts, i teared up before i began to speak. all i could muster was, you are a miracle worker. you make all my phone...
i have an old leather journal my friend brought back from italy my senior year of high school.i wrote john mayer lyrics in it at first, then sonnets from that shakespeare class i took my first year o...
first: thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes and prayers for my presentation. i have never in my entire life felt the Spirit so tangibly. i was a bundle of nerves the entire day...u...
today is the day i give the biggest speech of my life. today is the day i slay those demons.oh, and today is my birthday!lots of big things.back tomorrow with a more thoughtful post! in the mea...
when the sunshine is hitting the little shed just right and theres a sweet breeze ruffling the azalea around, i dont want to be inside. not even a little bit. so yesterday, when the paper i put off a...
today is friday. and theres a little sliver of sunshine dancing on the bushes outside my office window. its a precious reminder that though there are storm clouds above the oaks, there is hope...
for two weeks in march, i didnt wear lipstick.this may seem trivial to some, but for a girl who relishes in that morning swipe of color, it was...different.i did it because i read an article in...
lying there last night, with the pin oak making a shadow against the blinds, i spoke to you of our first month together. the first date. first kiss. then of the other months. the hard times in colleg...
imageover the weekend, i read this interesting blog post.the essay is written by bronnie ware, a former palliative care nurse. during her time in this position, bronnie had a chance to speak with man...
if you were to walk up those carpeted steps, sliding your hands up the old oak banister, you would turn left and enter my old bedroom. if this were any year before 2005, you would find my littl...
i always love those gorgeous instagram collages that bloggers post of their daily lives. the ones where the lights hitting the coffee cup swirl just right and the flowers are a vibrant shade of purpl...
imagei wrote this essay in the bathtub one night in january. when it was dark and cold, with the clipboard against my knees. i submitted it the next morning to the piedmont wildlife center writ...
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