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Things My Daddy Taught Me

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I’m going to try to do this. I honestly don’t know how successful I’ll be – I haven’t written in a long time, besides some political drabbles about made up things that don’t really matter, and on top of that I’m not sure if I’ll be able to write as a teacher – but I’m going to try. My mom gave me a few weeks ago a CD that was full of lessons that my dad taught and sermons he wrote. She has…

I’m Still Here but You’re Gone

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You know what the hardest thing about death is? When, a month and a half later, you hear a hilarious joke and your first instinct is to text it to them, and then you realize that you can’t. When two days after the funeral you have 11 bowls of potato salad with mustard, but they were the ones who liked mustard, and now no one is going to eat all of it. When the next year you forget to put gas…

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Do you have someone in your life that you don’t sing the praises of enough? I think maybe we all do. That one person who knows exactly how to deal with you in just the right way so that even when you’re in the great big middle of a mental breakdown, they can calm you down and make you think. My best friend is like that. I don’t know how she does it. 

I am the kind of girl who takes immense…

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Every week when I write a new blog, I go back and look at the stats from my previous week of activity – how many people read this week, how did these people find me, did they look at more than one post – etc. Today when I went and looked back, I saw that one person had gone back and read “Pentecostal Probs,” a blog that I wrote a few weeks ago, and had arrived at that post by searching Google…

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I’ve been playing this game lately, called NationStates, where I have been able to create my own country! It’s very exciting. My country is called Altino, named after Alton Brown, because I was watching Cutthroat Kitchen when I created it and Alton is amazing. I’ve created my own currency – the “mika,” named after my dog, because she’s precious as diamonds. I meant to create a country that…

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I guess it’s pretty natural for a family to be always changing – growing and shrinking. We have deaths and divorces, births and marriages, fights and reunions, and all of these things have pretty drastic effects on our family dynamics. My family at large has been losing and gaining members at a pretty regular rate, I think, but my immediate family does nothing but grow. It took some getting…

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I’ve been doing some reflection lately on how humans view the world. I tend to see myself as a unique individual with real issues that I face on a daily basis. I understand that I think in a way that is different from the way that I perceive that the world thinks. I see my time on earth as a completely one-of-a-kind experience and I am happy to feel that way. Somehow, though, in my obsession…

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Does it absolutely dumbfound anyone else out there how people will just outright lie on the internet for no reason at all? I just can’t understand it. It’s like those statuses on Facebook that are constantly going around claiming that IT WAS ANNOUNCED ON THE NEWS, FACEBOOK WILL BEGIN CHARGING FOR IT’S SERVICES STARTING TOMORROW UNLESS YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS AS YOUR STATUS. What? That is a…

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I’m listening to this song that got super popular a year or two ago in churches: Oceans, by Hillsong United. Everyone sings it. It’s one of those songs that if it weren’t so heartfelt would get old because it’s used so often. Gracefully, it is very heartfelt and every time I hear it, I am nothing less than grateful for God’s strength in my life and his guiding hand. When I listen to this…

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Everyone has that one (or two or three…) thing in their lives that people are always asking about or commenting on. For example, if you wear glasses, you will always run into those people who want to try them on. Then, after they try them on they will either exclaim “Wow! You are blind!” (No kidding) or they will claim that they can see perfectly out of them, despite purportedly having 20/20…

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I am in love with a church. I don’t even attend this church, mind you. It’s a church close to where my mom lives and it’s like an hour and a half away, so I don’t make it over too often, but let me tell you: I’m in love with it. I skip around from church to church a lot lately – mostly because I travel so much. I may be at my mom’s house this weekend, maybe my Grandmother’s next weekend,…

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In a recent blog  I referred to this current period in human evolution as the Age of Social Media and accidentally enlightened myself. I actually almost stopped writing that blog entirely so that I could write this one instead. It occurred to me that as humans, we progress through stages of development that are definitely identifiable. We have the Bronze Age, The Great Awakening, The Age of…