Lore and Literature

Today is my twenty-seventh birthday. And so, I leave you with John Watson's encouraging reflection upon this age. "She must be se...

Here's a glimmer from 2014. (See previous post for what a Glimmer is.) It was a Sunday. I'd been in that lonesome Meijer all day, ...

What's a glimmer? It's what I call a moment in which a much larger law of the universe is represented. In these moments, that serve ...

I'm an Evangelical Christian. If you are too, then this post is for you. What does St. Patrick's Day mean to me? For me, it'...

Poetry is formed in the human heart like diamonds are formed in the earth. Diamonds are formed 90 miles deep in the earth in places where ...

Lately I've realized that I have had an abundance of blessings poured into my lap.  I finally have a full-time office job with fun co-wo...

I was reading some of my journal entries from this past year. It's interesting to look back and remember where I was and how I've gr...

As I've said before, I'm an ISFJ. This means that my fourth and least developed function is Extroverted Intuition. The websites I...

I just returned from a month in China. It was an amazing journey! It wasn't all a easy, we had work to do, but things like that draw you...

Confessions of an ISFJ: 1. I have no idea how to handle unforeseen social situations. I think this is because I am a Sensor and I re...

Continuing in my mini-series on personality types, here's another little snapshot of personalities playing out in my family. Enjoy! I ...

Did you know that a simple pen can give great insight into personalities? My mother discovered this one day. Our mom home-schooled us and ...

I'm not at all an expert on Myers-Briggs, but I've been reading, studying and exploring this personality system and there are times ...

Memory is a funny thing. Certain things we retain, and others we forget. Mark Gungor compares men's brains to boxes and women's to b...

Anxiety grips my heart like lighting in a storm. Searing pain wrapping and lashing around my heart, squeezing it. The shaking tremors that...

The heart is a muscle. Both the physical heart and the emotional one. Our feelings may really stem from a part of our brains, yet we say...

Moss, Iceland It is in the little things that I see God. In the tiny flowers, shiny acorns, lichen on rocks, and the multicolored sheen...

The fourth floor of the campus library. Silence is the law. The only sounds are the turning of a few pages. Yet I could hear the books scr...

I grew up watching Star Trek , but I didn't have much choice. It was my dad's favorite TV show. As a teen, I became a bit anti-Star ...

Certain books strike me as having different flavors. Books and food. It's not a bad analogy really.  The reader ingests and then diges...