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Good Reads

Yes, I’m kind of stealing the title from a great website, Goodreads (where I am now tracking my books read and books to read). The multiple blizzards of January 2010 were a blessing in disguise in more ways than one. I think I read more in those snowed-in days than I did in all ofContinue reading “Good Reads”

Punctuated thinking

So I wasn’t on Facebook at all today. Nor on Twitter. I still think in short little blurbs though. I bet none of my thoughts were over 140 characters. Throughout the day when things happened to me I would immediately formulate my short, pithy comment about the situation. Then I’d remember that I had nowhereContinue reading “Punctuated thinking”

Giving it up

I don’t remember ever practicing Lent. Growing up Baptist it wasn’t something that we “did”. Not that there is anything wrong with Lent. In fact, I like the idea of giving up something that controls a person in order to focus on her relationship with Jesus. My desire is to do that constantly, whenever IContinue reading “Giving it up”

Digging the altruism

I helped a man unstick his car from the snow and ice yesterday. On the way back from taking my neighbor to her friend’s house for the weekend I noticed a guy, in our neighborhood, who had gotten his little car stuck in the middle of an intersection. It was blocking the way of aContinue reading “Digging the altruism”

Cool time lapse video of Snowmageddon

My friend’s brother set up his camera to take a picture every 15 minutes during the first blizzard we had, this past weekend. This is so awesome. Watch the tree on the right side of the video. Thanks Amanda!

Blessing in disguise

Snowpocolypse Snowmageddon SnOMG How about SNOVERKILL It started snowing Friday. It hasn’t snowed continually since then but it sure feels like it. The average snowfall for my area for the last snow was 26″. We’re expecting anywhere between 10″ and 20″ more. On Saturday the power was out for closer to 20 hours than 12Continue reading “Blessing in disguise”