To Teach or Not to Teach?
When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to teach kindergarten. When I was in grade school, I wanted to teach grade school. When I was
Month: June 2012
On the offensive: Unsolicited religious advice from Evangelicals
When I worked as a catering manager for a Christian college, I would occasionally be responsible for managing in the dining hall for Sunday brunch.
Bradley University and Me
I almost didn’t make it to Bradley. As the one school that had almost everything I wanted from the time we started looking at colleges
Pride and Prejudice – Love, Heart, Love
I’ve always been an avid reader. I read my first classic novel (Little Women) in the fourth grade and haven’t stopped since. Having just finished
In Love with Jon Bon Jovi
When I was a kid, I lived across the street from Bon Jovi. Okay, maybe it wasn’t THE Jon Bon Jovi, but he sure looked
Knock Down Drag Out What?
One of the few times I saw the sun come up before going to sleep, happened about a year after I graduated college. We decided
Drunken Laundry at the Laundromat
In the spring of 2008, my parents’ washing machine was on the fritz…and being a grown woman still living at her parents’ house…I needed to
The Bad Dog
After losing all of our animals in a freak winter of animal deaths, we knew that it was time to get a new dog. Our
The Good Dog(s)
We got Bismark when I was 5 (Our first German Shepherd, Joey, died on my fifth birthday) and we had him until I was a
The One that Nobody Knew About
Four moving violations in almost as many months… Two speeding tickets. Two accidents. One attorney. One court date scheduled for January. And a partridge in
Isn’t it Ironic?
After my third moving violation in a matter of months, I was a little concerned about the status of my driver’s license. Of course, that
Just a Victim of Circumstance?
A few months after my two Speedy Mcgee incidents, I made my very first court appearance. Dressed professionally and looking confident, I walked into the