Mixed Moss

On this day in 1963, some of the most stirring words in American history were spoken. They rang out in the very halls of heaven and hell; they will echo in the corridors of eternity. May their sound also never die in our hearts– the hearts of men and women of every color.

I am happy […]

Omigosh omigosh omigosh omigosh!!! They’re puting an Ikea in about forty minutes north of the city!!! Right around the corner from my mother’s house!!! I am more excited about this than I have been about anything in a very long time…I think I may need to go watch Fight Club in order to talk myself […]

I don’t usually fall for blonds. But I just stayed up waaay too late the night before driving to Chicago in order to watch a movie which by definition sucked. Conclusion: I’d watch anything with Josh Lucas in it. Yeah, pretty much anything.
OK, so the planes didn’t hurt. Where most girls had posters of boy […]

Just saw the Ben Folds video for Jesusland. Loved it. If you do it today, you watch it on the Relevant website: www.relevantmagazine.com
Click on Relevant TV, and then the “Jesusland” video by Ben Folds. It’s the featured one today.
I love this song. It’s about the fact that Jesus just came for the people, all people, […]

So I’m going through the Strengths Quest book right now (shout-out to Sam and Rachel, who are helping me out with it) and one of my strengths turns out to be input. This explains why I am a little bit interested in just about everything. And why I clip magazine articles, and why I prefer […]

Mellow afternoon light. Deep blue sky. Black-eyed Susans and Queen Anne’s Lace peaking out of the tall, unmown grass, and a silver-striped cat stalking through it. The sound of wind in the leafy trees and the hum of cicadas blending into an illusion of the sea. Humidity you don’t care to think of, nights when […]

OK, so the other night I went out with some sorority sisters (who, admittedly, are a few years younger than me) and they brough along some fraternity brothers (who are much younger than me) and they were talking about somebody who just turned twenty one. (For you UK-ers, that’s the age in the States at […]

I just killed a fly. He was annoying me. He was flying about half-heartedly, near my computer monitor. He was crawling over the desk near my cell phone. He was not flying away as soon as my cellphone came even remotely close to him as I nudged it his direction. What was wrong with this […]

Well, really, where can you wear a diamond necklace these days? Sorry, Marilyn, sign me up for the iPod and the Nikon D-100. But then, I don’t feel terribly “condescended to” often, either. My boss, who is my Dad’s age, asks me when he has technology questions. I can’t always answer them but sometimes I […]