We've been together for four years. Our relationship has been through thick and thin, but lately we've hit a rough patch from which there is no recovery. It's time for me to break up with my coffee maker. Trust me, it's easier said than done. My coffee maker has always been there supplying me with hot, caffeinated nectar of life and I've ... [Read More…]
What Ma and Pa taught me
I've had a good life, I know that. And although the rebellious teenager in me begs to differ, my parents are central to that. I'm spoiled. It's been almost 23 years now and my parents are still together, still teaching me about this world. And just like other families, we've gone through it all. Name it and we've more than likely faced it. ... [Read More…]
Comic Sans: A tale of snobbery
You know those things everybody loves to hate? - things like Core, Nickleback, Nicolas Cage. And, of course, Comic Sans. If you think you know anything about fonts, odds are you've laughed scornfully at a poster that committed the most deadly of design sins of using Comic Sans. You probably did this pretentiously to your friends or, really, ... [Read More…]
College towns will be college towns
Since moving to our state's capital nearly two months ago, people often ask me what the biggest differences between Austin and Abilene are. They are numerous and they are obvious. So instead I've set out to find some similarities between these two A-towns, even if they are few and far between. It seems that a college town is still a college town ... [Read More…]
Friends, guilt and tough choices
Now bear with me. This one's a little haphazard. A few nights ago, I was hanging out with Group A of friends. My Group A met with Group B of friends and we all hung out. Group B realized that Group A had the potential of being involved in sketchy activities because of Group A's questionable morals. Group B, knowing I was oblivious to what was ... [Read More…]
In the name of womancipation
It started a year and a half ago in a salon, staring up into a petite Asian woman's face. She had just finished using a piece of cloth to rip scalding wax off my face when I had an epiphany. My face stung, my eyes watered and it occurred to me that I didn't really care what my eyebrows looked like. Everyone else has to look at them a lot more ... [Read More…]
On the road, again
Everybody needs to hit the road. I don't mean that in a rude way, but more as a matter-of-fact. Being from California, one of the states that's too close to fly but still wretched by car, I've been on my fair share of road trips. Even before I got to ACU and my parents told me they could rarely fly me home, I drove around several states almost ... [Read More…]
The athletes of Team B-I-B-L-E
I've felt cheated while watching the 2014 Sochi Games. I don't remember "Olympic athlete" offered as an option on Career Day. In turn, I sit couch-sprawled and bitter at dreams never to be. But in my brooding, I've thought of athletes who will also go unglorified. With the lack of electric transportation and digital eases, I have to believe the ... [Read More…]
Media portrays what love is not
Of all the television programs currently airing, The Bachelor is one of the most unnerving. The pseudo-reality dating show features a single man and the 20 or more female contestants chosen to be his love interests. The show includes group dates, one-on-one dates, overnight dates and a whole lot of pointless drama. The Bachelor is airing its ... [Read More…]
If the Bible went to high school
In the beginning, was the Word of God. And it was good. But not quite good enough, because ever since, we humans have been embellishing, rewriting and chopping up its contents. The result has given way to more than 50 different English versions. Each bears distinguishing hallmarks, each aiding a different sort of Holy reader, each resembling a ... [Read More…]
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