are you ready to learn some more reasons to love idaho? 7.  i tease that they have no history here.  after a few days of driving around i asked where all the old buildings are.  i was taken to a fort that was built in 1880 and realized that my family house is older than… Continue reading idaho update #4

day number 3.5 here.  it’s different than the east coast and somehow different than the california west coast i know.  i’ve been trying my very best to figure out what it is that makes it so unique.  the trees are quite similar to where i live.  there are mountains and lakes and lots of pleasant… Continue reading idaho update #3

one more reason to love this place: a few years ago, in the midst of many people in a small school building, a boy met a girl.  they didn’t think anything of each other at that point but since they discovered that they both came from the same town, the boy and girl continued to… Continue reading idaho update #2

i’m here.  in idaho.  my schedule has been planned for me and packed every second of every day since my plane touched the ground.  coffee get-togethers, birthday lunches, breakfast parties, small group studies, bride-to-be helping, live music listening, and walks and walks and walks.  i’ve been loving it. but now, i’m here at starbucks sipping… Continue reading idaho update #1

someone came into my blue office last week and told the coworker and i that we lead very boring lives and we should get out more.  they were sure to remind us that we are always to return but suggested that leaving the confines of our four walls we sit in for most of the… Continue reading far away far away

i would ask you to pray for her. this afternoon i held her hand and read this aloud.  she closed her eyes and the words seemed to settle her soul. i kissed her forehead and told her that she could take a nap when the clock told me i really needed to go.  she looked… Continue reading “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed…”

Promise me you’ll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave. Winnie the Pooh

i wake up to michael jackson’s thriller every single morning.  judge if you must, but you can’t help but start moving when that greets your ears.  his song turned on fifty minutes ago today.  i laid in bed not sure where i was, what day it is, and if i had already been awake or… Continue reading my morning so far.

you know the look? the one that tells you in the space of one second that the person giving it thinks you’re crazy, out of your mind, obnoxious, overwhelming, scary, and quite possibly annoying?  yes, that look.  i find that i have a tendency to provoke the look quite often. i was there in a… Continue reading the look.

someone please take my computer away from me. when exhausted, stressed, overjoyed, frustrated, delighted, or overwhelmed… i shop online. it’s very, very bad.