Category: April Blogging Challenge
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Book Review (and giveaway): Daughter, by Deborah Miller
(This giveaway is now closed) Happy day 3 of the April Blogging Challenge! Today I’m going to be talking about the book Daughter: A Girl-to-Girl Conversation About What it Means to be One, by Deborah Isabel Miller. I first heard about this project a year and a half ago, before it was even written, when my…
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The 2020 April Blogging Challenge
Congratulations, we survived March! What year is it? Where are we? Is it over yet? For a few years, I’ve teamed up with various members of my family to do the April Blogging Challenge. Last year we took a break, and this year, none of my sisters were interested in taking on the challenge. But…
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When Tech is No Longer Exciting
I was born in 1990. My entire childhood and adolescence was defined by this idea that, every six months to a year, something new and absolutely mind-blowing would enter my universe. A computer A color monitor A color printer Email A digital camera A pager CD’s DVD’s Instant messenger Dial-up internet USB drives Cell phones Laptops Flat-screen…
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April Giveaway Winner+8 Random Thoughts
The winner of my book giveaway is Celina Lynnette! Congrats, Celina! Sorry, I am too tired to do the whole draw-a-name-out-of-a-hat-and-take-pictures-of-the-process thing. That means that this post is super short and lame, and not really a proper April Blogging Challenge post. Maybe I’ll go all Emily-of-ten-years-ago and post some random thoughts. 8 Random Thoughts: Today…
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Seven Reasons Why Single People Become Cynical
I think cynicism may be the great vice of single people. It’s been such a struggle for me, especially in the past few years, that I’ve begun to think of it as part of the universal single experience. I may be wrong on this; I’ve certainly known singles who’ve seemed to avoid this path, and…
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April Book Giveaway (ABC Day 18)
Today I’m cleaning off my bookshelf and doing a little book giveaway. These books fall squarely in the camp of “I enjoyed them, but I don’t necessarily want them cluttering up my bookshelf forever, but someone else might LOVE them.” At least, someone might love the first one. Not sure about the second. But I’ll…
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Travis and Christina’s Wedding
When Travis was in town, things were different. Before he arrived in Oregon to sing for Gospel Echoes, our local prison ministry group, my brother Ben and I were pretty much the only single people in our 20s at church. But after Travis came, we hung out with him, as well as his roommate Javen…
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7 Ways To Maintain Friendships in Adulthood (ABC Day 11)
One of the many topics of conversation that came up during my trip to Montana with my Aunts was friendship. I found it surprising how many people get to adulthood and feel friendless. So I decided to write a post about friendship. But first, a couple caveats. A. I am very aware that being single…
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Hang Out With Your Aunts (ABC Day 8)
At 3:00 am on a Thursday morning, we left on a trip; me, my mother, and my aunts. And my first-cousin-once-removed, for good measure. “Can I come along?” I’d begged my mother, a week and a half prior. I’d enviously heard her plan this trip, to a ladies’ retreat in Montana where she was speaking,…
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April Blogging Challenge 2k18 (Day 1)
Hello all, and welcome back to the April Blogging Challenge! Every year, mom, Jenny, and I blog every day in the month of April. This year we roped Amy into joining as well. Here is our current posting plan: Sundays: Me Mondays: Mom Tuesdays: Jenny Wednesdays: Me Thursdays: Mom Fridays: Jenny Saturdays: Amy That’s all…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 