I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing: Each time I find myself, flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race! …
Category: Life as I Know It
Life, Interrupted…
Have you ever had an unexpected opportunity interrupt you? How do you respond? Life is easy, and happy. You are content and feeling pretty good about things in general. Work is good. The commute is manageable. Weekly schedules are somewhat predictable. The lady at your usual Starbucks knows your order. Why screw this up? Suddenly you…
Turkey Outreach – feeding 70,000 Thanksgiving Dinner in Metro-Washington, DC
For the past 5 years, I have volunteered to serve in the annual Adopt-a-Turkey ‘Turkey Outreach” at my church. This event is like none other. Hundreds of volunteers show up to the church parking lot around 6:00 am the Saturday before Thanksgiving to set up four long assembly lines and unload food from massive Safeway…
Thanksgiving Prep starts TODAY
I am making Thanksgiving Dinner for my husband and my mother-in-law Judy. Several years ago, I found a delicious brine recipe from Legal Seafoods of all places. This is funny for several reasons, the least of which being that Brian worked at Legals for multiple years, I got a Turkey brine recipe from a seafood…
Welcome to My Living Canvas
Hi. I’m glad you found me. A little about me… Christ follower, wife, daughter, volunteer, missionary, employee, southerner, world traveler, music lover, cook, reader, writer, passionate, creative, loud, shy, visionary, idealist, silly, serious, sinfully reckless, wounded, humble, miraculously redeemed, seeking open roads, the silver lining, and the opportunity of a lifetime. Like the rest of…
Stories from SE Asia
Thank you so much for supporting our mission trip to SE Asia. As you know, we partnered with Compassion International children’s ministries to complete construction projects and teach English classes. A typical day began with prayer and devotion time with our Indonesian brother and sisters. Then we got to work. Repairs included building a motorcycle…
Thinking about travel, culture, and love
A few months ago, a friend handed me a book called: Eat, Pray, Love insisting I read it before I embarked on my upcoming journey overseas. I was hesitant at first, because there are definitely some things in that book that I do not agree with or believe in- however- if we never allow our…
Need.
“The people he was trying to help… killed him.” These were words I heard at work today. I work for a Christian non-profit, non-government organization. We are in the business of international development and relief work. Every person who works here is passionately committed to caring for the needs of the poor and oppressed here…
My Next 30 years
Shortly after Brian and I started dating, I had the privilege of ringing in his 30th birthday with him. We had only been dating 2 months at the time. We were driving out to Ned Divines to hear Fighting Gravity and a song came on the radio… my next 30 years some country song I…
Heavenly Day
My Brother-in-law sent me this review of Patty Griffin’s new album set to drop February 6, note that in the blog of “things to look forward to” this is listed as numero uno! The new album is titled Children Running Through and one of the songs from that album is my featured myspace song. I…
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