Loving like a Pest

I have this cat that annoys me to no end. My parents named him Pest in an attempt to capture the fullness of his personality and he certainly lives up to his name. If you are a living person, Pest likes to be around you all the time. Unlike many cats who can be described [...]

Not so creative right now. . .

This post is not so cleaver or creative, but rather the lyrics to an old song that is just really resonating with my heart right now. I have come to this ocean And the waves of fear are starting to grow The doubts and questions are rising with the tide So I’m clinging to the [...]

Caring People Do Exist!!

As I was driving home from a meeting today I found myself very hungry and after scrounging through my wallet I found the grand total of $2.25. I pulled through the drive-thru at McDonalds and asked the man on the other end of the monitor how much a fish sandwich and medium fry would cost. [...]

The Importance of Wrinkles

I remember as a child being fascinated with the wrinkles on my mother and grandmother’s faces. Being a perceptive little one, I noticed that their faces had a different, smoother and softer texture than mine, which was largely due to the influence of wrinkles. I loved touching their faces because of the way their skin [...]

Big Brother’s Watching. . . Is there a double standard on who he can watch?

In the Friday December 16th edition of the New York Times, it was revealed to the American masses that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on the international calls of individuals who have been positively linked to Al Qaeda. The Times called this mission a “major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices” and [...]

Femininity

A few months ago a guy said to me, “You know, Angela, you don’t have a princess complex like a lot of women I know. My assistant has a princess complex and she thinks the whole world has to revolve around her. She feigns weakness just to get attention and expects all of us to [...]

Standing out

I can’t describe the thoughts in my head when I read the writings of those who are obviously much passed my level of intellect. I want to read and learn everything they have to say. And I am reminded that my mind is just nary a speck on the blip of the intelligence radar. I [...]

Life: Through the words of the wise

To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film canot be seen before its last sequence is shown. -Viktor E. Frankl I hear them saying you’ll never change things/ And no [...]

Gotta be more than this provential life.

Sometimes I find myself feeling pretty defeated as a Christian since I typically seem to forget that my life has a purpose that is beyond my circumstances. It is so easy for us as Christians to get caught up in the work that we are doing at the moment, whether or not that work serves [...]

Reflection Paper for Colloquium

Reflections on Getting Lost As I was reading the speech by the professor from Millsaps I couldn’t help but smile and think about the times when I was the student in the audience. When I graduated from high school the administration boasted of how great our class was: how much we had done, how smart [...]