Month: July 2012

PHFR – July is almost over

I’m neck deep in event planning again. The Charis Comedy Night is this Saturday. If you are in San Diego come out for the show, and let me know you’re coming so I can be sure to say hi. I apparently have to talk and stuff, before the funny bits […]

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This is what we do with broken things

He couldn’t know that the glass he broke was something thrifted, or from the dollar store, I don’t remember which. And as a first time dinner guest at my in-laws house he was busy apologizing over the wine glass and offering to replace it, not really believing my mother in […]

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When my heart is in retreat.

I let the tears flow, under the cover of darkness, while I lay on the girl’s bed listening to them pray. Aaron’s arms wrapped tight around me as we listened, as if he could feel the tears I wanted no one to see. I let them flow for distances that […]

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Camping

Aaron is in town longer than 7 consecutive days, for probably the last time in 2012, so we went camping. It was amazing, exactly what we needed. I accidentally booked us at this place that is basically a camping resort. I was really just looking for the next closest place […]

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Tilting at Windmills

There are two different ways to go through life. Afraid, or confident. In grew up in the church of the afraid. Otherwise known as the devotees of spiritual warfare. Does anyone even use that term anymore? I knew people who saw an attack and a plan and a conspiracy against […]

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Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real – Independance and stuff

Usually for Independence Day we stay home, maybe BBQ, watch the fireworks from our front step, and stay away from the crowds and the drunk people. But this year my MIL, who has been spending almost every waking moment taking care of her aging parents, wanted to do something fun […]

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