Category archives: Nonfiction

who’s to blame?

It’s 4:00 in the morning. I went to bed at 11:00, watched a little Colbert at Hulu.com until 11:30, then tried to go to sleep. It didn’t work. My stomach had been acting funny (hmm could’ve been that coney dog… continue reading »

Honor thy (grand)mother and (grand)father.

Again, totally not in the mood to write. Even if I wanted to write, I should work on my online class or trying to get something published, not wasting my time (and yours) blogging about nothing interesting. Sigh. But I’ll… continue reading »

A rant. Please enjoy.

The book I have to read for my TUFW online class tells me that I need to consistantly write/blog in order to develop a discipline. And so that is what I am doing. I hope that excites you. ;-) Today… continue reading »

Lauren+Reading too much=Random Blogs

A freelancer (as I am, www.meatloafdesign.com) is a lot like a Geisha. Now, I don’t mean that freelancers entertain Japanese businessmen or give away their mizuage to the highest bidder (thank the Lord for that one), BUT we have other… continue reading »

Refine hate and love, fall afresh on me. End this crisis of identity.

It turns out I don’t know who I am. I thought I knew; I thought I had everything figured out. I was wrong. Amanda and I were talking about identity, how college is the time where you find yours. I… continue reading »

Jesus People USA.

It’s been a few days… it’s time to recap the missions trip. My youth group went to Chicago, Illinois where we worked with Jesus People USA, a community of Christians that live out the infamous Acts 2 example of Church.… continue reading »

If the fear of carpal tunnel is not enough…

“We suffer from the illusion… that we can expand our personal bandwidth, connecting to more and more. Instead, we end up overstimulated, overwhelmed and… unfulfilled. Continuous partial attention inevitably feels like a lack of full attention.” [Ellen Goodman, “In Praise… continue reading »