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This year, for Spring Break, four of my childhood friends and I piled into a minivan and drove to Colorado. The Goals: 1. To see their friends from Bible School, and my friends from when I lived out here. 2. To hang out in the Colorado sunshine and do whatever. So far the plan has…

I was driving to school Monday morning when my car started making a weird clatterey scrapey noise. Oh great. Instantly I heard my drivers ed teacher’s voice in my head. “You must employ all five senses while driving. If you hear a strange noise, something could be wrong with your car.” “Maybe if I ignore…

This term I’m writing for the LBCC school paper, “The Commuter.” Today I was in the Commuter office. A couple of the staff are in my American Minority lit class, and so we were talking about “Kenton,” this one guy who always talks way too much in class and has way too many opinions. (I…

I am a writer, because I blog and have a book published and am always writing things down. Consequently, when I tell people I am going to college, they often wonder if I am an English major. I am not an English major. The prospect of being an English major fills me with cold dread.…

I was walking through the library, when I heard someone say, “Hey Emily, how long is your essay?” I looked at the guy talking to me. I didn’t know him. I didn’t know what essay he was talking about. Me: Um, what essay? Guy: The essay for American Lit (Oh, so he’s in that class.…

This is for all of you who read my mom’s blog and subsequently followed the link to my blog and are now eagerly awaiting the story of Lizzie Wenger’s bathroom. (And just in case you happen to hold up the Smucker family as being the root of all things holy and wonderful, you should know…

Today was the first day of winter term. I meant to get up early, eat a good breakfast, and get to school early, but of course I ended up doing none of those things. What I DID do was eat half a bowl of cereal, put up my hair with an ugly pen found in…

I heard on the radio the other day that people tend to walk counter-clockwise through stores. Also, that displays are set up to accommodate the counter-clockwise shopper, so if you want to buy fewer things you should deliberately walk through clockwise. I thought about the stores I go to regularly, and I was pretty sure…