I’ve always wished I had some artistic ability–by that I mean drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. When I was a kid I tried. Really hard. I tried and tried to draw, to paint, and to mold things out of polymer clay, but somehow nothing ever came out looking quite right. The closest I was able to get was the most basic…
Month: March 2018
Finding Focus
Sometimes I’m amazed how easy it is to lose focus on what’s important so quickly. For a Bible study we’re doing at church, we had to read a piece called “The Tyranny of the Urgent.” It contrasted the “urgent” things in our lives with the important things. I already knew all about this. I knew that good doesn’t always mean…
Dependence
Two things caused this post to percolate in my mind over the weekend. 1. A few mentions of the “Bechdel test” scattered across social media. 2. Continued Marvel Cinematic Universe movie marathon with my husband. For anyone unfamiliar with the Bechdel test, it states that a work of fiction only passes the test if two women have a conversation with…
The Frustration of Evolution
No, not biological evolution, as in Darwinism. That’s a completely different topic that doesn’t fit on this blog at all. I mean the evolution of the development of our skills and talents. I’ve been reading the collected stories of O. Henry lately. I’ve always enjoyed the stories of his that I’ve read, but I found a big, beautiful hardbound collection…
My Own Little Corner
New apartment means new workspace! Well, not really because the apartment we moved to is just the mirror image of our old one, so my workspace is really exactly the same, just on the opposite side of the room. But it still feels fresh and new–all clean and organized–so I thought I’d give y’all a little peek at it! I…
Call Western Union
In the past couple of weeks, we saw four relatively recent movies. All within the past couple of years, at least. Only one of them–Black Panther was in the theater. One, Spotlight, we downloaded on our tablet to watch on our anniversary cruise. The other two, Logan Lucky and Breathe we rented with my grandparents. All very different stories. And…