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My favorite view of Morgantown is the short, but spectacular glimpse I get of the whole town spread out on the hillside as I round the curve on Monongahela Boulevard coming down from the Coliseum to Morgantown proper. The mood changes depending on the season and weather, but I never
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We moved! This was the culmination of months of job search, impatient waiting, packing, finding a house and so many things that added increasing amounts of stress into our life. The act of moving was the final piece. In some ways it feels like we can breathe again now. All
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I walked to the bus stop this morning and felt that suddenly I could breathe again. The last few days have been HOT. Heat indexes in the 100’s and humidity that leaves you dripping and struggling to breathe. But this morning the temperature finally broke a little bit. It’
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We've been in Alexandria now for 2 weeks. As John has mentioned a couple times, the next three years will mark the longest we've been in one house since we sold our house in Siloam about 6 years ago. Since then we've moved from
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In the last couple of weeks lots of things have fallen into place for our move to Alexandria. I got a job! And it's my dream job. I'll be working at a brand new shop in Old Town Alexandria called Stitch Sew Shop. And I'
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The following blog post was written a little over a year ago. It is written in a question/answer format listing some of the things I wanted to share even though most people weren't asking. I showed it to John and he wasn't sure about me
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This last weekend, John and I got to fly off all by ourselves to the East Coast to visit Virginia Theological Seminary. It felt like such a culmination of the last two years' worth of hopes and dreams and plans, but I know that I haven't shared
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I had written a blog post quite a few weeks ago that was meant to sort of be an update to the one I wrote about starting my job. So many things have happened since then that my schedule looks so different than it did when I wrote that blog.
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I am 35 years old. In that 35 years I have changed a lot. The last 15 of those years I have been married to a wonderful man. We were young when we got married, at least according to today's standards, and as probably many people thought, we
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Life has been a little hard lately. My kids have all been battling a long-lasting stomach bug, which means no school, no schedule, and lots of TV. I’m feeling the need to get back into a routine, but it will have to wait a little longer as we wait
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"Submission." It's one of those words that comes up a lot in evangelical circles when you talk about marriage and being a wife. It can have both a negative and beautiful connotation depending on whom you talk to. There are those who are scared of the
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Home. What a complicated word. I always thought I would call northwest Arkansas home, and in many ways it is. But it doesn't feel the same as it did. It's not a bad feeling, just different. In many ways it is freeing, because I don'