Archives: Life Posts
I have several movies that looped in the background of my childhood, creating a mesh of memories and meaning that influenced my life and worldviews in surprisingly profound ways. I'll tell you about three from my very early days (3 to 5 years)...if you tell me some of yours!
Wow. It has been a month since I’ve returned home from my trip to El Salvador with Unbound, but the dear people I met are still on my mind often. I think of my sponsored friend, Josefa, in the morning when I drink my morning coffee from the matching...
5 tips on how to start a book club...that's awesome...and that lasts. :)
Anne of Green Gables once said, “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” Well, if I had to live in a world that was like this past month, I’d take it. This June just felt like such a whirlwind...
Happy Sunday, friends! We’re finally back with another post in our “10 Things I’ve Learned” series. And I’m happy that our guest-poster today is my lovely, long-time friend, Meg. I actually met this pretty girl back in the year 2000, when my high school boyfriend took me to his...
Sarah shares her thoughts on five Sundance 2014 films coming to theaters this summer: Boyhood, Land Ho!, I Origins, Wish I Was Here, and A Most Wanted Man.
I totally just read a business book for the first time in years. Yes, the irony of this fact is not lost on me. I used to eat up business and self-help books back when I was in college and while I had a steady job during my twenties....
I'm on a quest. A quest to perfecting the art of Hosting Movie Nights. I am still early on my journey, but here's a few things I've learned so far.
Ok, now I officially feel for all of the dear friends I ask to boil their entire lives down into ten things they have learned. I just returned my trip with Unbound to El Salvador, and I could barely narrow a week down to ten! Ha, seriously though, I have so many things that...
As this post is being published today, I’m flying down to El Salvador with Unbound. And much of that is because of this lovely friend right here. Everyone, meet Sara. I met Sara years ago at my church through a sushi cooking class that I happened to be teaching....
Gimme Some Live has previews of three June new releases including The Fault in Our Stars, Edge of Tomorrow, and Obvious Child.
Friends, meet Tara. I had the pleasure of meeting her myself when I was a college freshman and she was one of my RAs at our tiny liberal arts college in rural Kansas. She was one of those girls who everyone knew and everyone adored, and I quickly came...
