Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Feb 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have a rant sitting in my head that will probably never see the light of day about how being single feels like the sole defining characteristic of my life right now. It seems sometimes that anything and everything I do, or think, or say, or write has, at its core, something to do with [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Aug 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
I just noticed, and not for the first time, that we have a category called Thoughts About Being Single. If you click on this link you will find eight posts. Together, Raquel and I have written over seven hundred posts. There are a hundred and seventeen posts on Friends and Family, seventy-six posts on Poems [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Jun 11th, 2007 No Comments »
My brother Jonathan wrote a blog post a while back talking about how so often we pray for something, but just assume God won’t do anything about it. We don’t expect that God will say yes. Perhaps I should say that I don’t expect Him to say yes.
I am single. You might have noticed. I [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on May 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
Something’s been nagging at the edges of my mind for a while. I identified it as feeling that it was time to get married. I struggled to put words to it, because obviously, it’s not as though I have arrived at a state of perfection. But in some indefinable way it felt like I was [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Nov 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
It is a strange thing. I felt sure when I started posting every day and giving thanks for something that I would very shortly run out of things to say. I mean, I can only be thankful for so much, right? But now that I am giving thanks I am noticing more to be thankful [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything, On Being Single on Jun 19th, 2006 11 Comments »
So I have this announcement to make and I can’t figure out if I want to be serious about it or sort of kinda humorous. What am I talking about? If I have a choice between serious and not serious my choice seems to be rather obvious. Okay, here goes.
Attention all readers. I have an [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles on Apr 3rd, 2006 4 Comments »
Have you ever had one of those times when you are about to leave, but you’re not leaving yet, but you don’t have enough time to go do something? I hate those times. I call it waiting mode. Now, in this house there isn’t much in the way of waiting mode because we are usually [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Oct 5th, 2005 6 Comments »
We watched a movie last night. It happens to be one that I like, but it had the basic action movie plot. As I watched I had to wonder if it holds any clues as to why I’m still single. After all, they lived happily ever after–after things stopped exploding–and my life looks nothing like [...]
Posted in On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jun 28th, 2005 3 Comments »
I just wrote a post about long term goals, so it seems that I shouldn’t have a post about short term impatience coming right after it. But I do.
I understand that fairy tale endings aren’t realistic. Maybe I don’t completely understand it at this point in my life, but I do live in a [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, On Being Single, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Jun 4th, 2005 1 Comment »
Career : a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
Career : What you plan to do for the rest of your life.
I was recently asked a question I found insightful. In one of the comments on this blog a friend asked Raquel and I if [...]