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I think I would like to study how different people process numbers. I have a hypothesis that some people are good at math, not only because of their intelligence, but because numbers arrange themselves in nice orderly patterns in that person’s brain. Numbers don’t arrange themselves in orderly patterns in my brain. They do in my…

First a brief back-story. Today at the cash register I had some down time, so I picked up a book to read from the Choice Books rack. It was “Do Hard Things,” by Alex and Brett Harris. I have had terrible luck with the Choice Books rack in the past, finding nothing but ill-researched and…

The old lady came by, her hands full of food items. She was hesitant, not sure if she would have enough money to buy everything. “$7.80,” I said. The lady pulled out her money; a five dollar bill and a one dollar bill, creased and wrinkled. Deep in her pocket she found a handful of…

It is worth it to know what you don’t know. ~Professor Covington, Bridgewater College I might go to college, I just don’t know what I would go for. ~The answer I often get when I ask Mennonite girls if they will go to college  I’m going into the medical field. ~The answer I get when…

Random thought, circa 2007 On Friday, March 30, 2007, I discovered something amazing. Dr. Pepper. I always thought it would taste disgusting, like…medicine, but it didn’t. It was amazing.   Made-up definition, circa a volleyball game in  2007 Duck syndrome: def-the condition of habitually ducking whenever the ball heads your way. Traditionally found in the female species,…

I haven’t been blogging much recently. Did you notice? I kind of relinquished my dreams of being a “real” blogger. Did you notice? Now I just blog for fun. Did you notice? A week ago I unpacked two boxes and two big purses full of notebooks from my car and have been going through them,…

Some of my bedroom projects have not gotten done. There are some very good explanations for this. 1. School 2. Work 3. Laziness Jenny: Mom, why is it that when I come in to give you a hug, you ALWAYS give me jobs to do? Sorry, I just overheard that and had to share. Moving…

Writing a book was easy. Not because writing comes easily to me. Well, partially because writing comes easily to me. But mostly because I didn’t have to plot it, I didn’t have to worry about the story arc, and I didn’t even have to write most of it. It was already there, on my blog,…

1. I’ve learned to love growing up. I used to think that growing up meant a diminishing of the imagination. I used to think that growing up meant falling into some boring societal norm…being married with kids, having a boring job…and I would be stuck with it for the rest of my life. The truth…

The girl found her old diary, a dark blue volume an inch and a half thick which it had taken her eleven months to fill as she climbed out of her sickness. Opening it eagerly, she prepared to make the journey again, looking back on it from the other side.   And then, just as…