I will never forget showing a friend of mine this guy named "Ben" on Facebook back in 2007. I had been looking at his pictures and messaging him every month or so, learning his personality through the internet. He lived 800 miles away from me and we were both in college, but I thought he [...]
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An Open Letter To My Old Fellowship About This Blog.
When Social Distancing Feels Familiar
This whole thing seemed like a big joke at first. Some virus from China that kills less people than the average flu? Whatever, what's for dinner? We joked about it at small group and scoffed at the media for always perpetuating fear and causing panic about the next 'big thing'. In the middle of all [...]
Whoops! A baby in the bathtub (Jojo’s birth story)
Josephine Clare was born on a Tuesday at 4:20am, January 28th, 2014. Two days prior, the electricity went out in our little apartment .... and I had a total meltdown. I will not forget the intense passion I was experiencing while sternly reprimanding Ben he needed to get that fixed and he needed to get that fixed ASAP. Even though my [...]