(Scenes from Spring Break) S and I got home late last night from our Spring Break adventure. We stayed with my aunt and uncle in the countryside of New Jersey and visited small towns in New Jersey, New York City, and Philadelphia and Hershey, Pennsylvania. We had a great time! The trip seemed well-balanced…
Tag: perspective
Changed My Mind
(The courtyard of the Freer Museum in Washington, D.C.) I grew up with Evangelical Southern Baptist parents and spent a solid amount of time attending church, youth groups, AWANA, vacation bible schools, and youth camps. When I was 18, shortly after I graduated high school, I became disenchanted with church – with the Evangelical Southern…
Water, Water, Water
(It rained all day yesterday and Katie insisted on sharing a seat with me) I spent all weekend working on my book. I spent 5 hours on Saturday on the final edits, perfecting the formatting for ‘Sortilege’ and queuing the listing on Amazon. On Sunday I sent out more than 40 press releases (fingers crossed…
A Different Kind of Happy
(Trees outside the hoop house in our backyard) Living a life opposite of societal ideals can be a little depressing sometimes. Rather than aiming for amassing money or climbing corporate ladders or box-checking (as in: married? check. car? check. real job? pending.), S and I have prioritized experiences above everything else. This is why we’ve…
Differences
(Flower climbing up the side of my father-in-law’s house) Every so often, I read a blog post or article written by someone with drastically different beliefs than mine. There are so many people in the world with struggles entirely other from the things I’ve dealt with. As a white, heterosexual, American female, raised middle class,…
Courtney Cox 