Category: Inspirational
It All Happened at a Church Camp
“One more pair of heels—just in case!” As I scrambled about my room, tossing one skirt after another into my suitcase, my mind frantically raced in a last minute preparation. In less than ten minutes, I would be heading up to the ole’ campgrounds where I would spend yet another week of my summer at… View Article
Clear the Stage: My Youth Camp Story
The long awaited return of youth camp is finally here. Every year, camp continues to exceed expectations. From the sleepless nights over seeing everyone to the hope of finally beating the counselors in basketball and baseball, I can never get enough of youth camp. The most important part of camp for me is being in… View Article
This semester, I was assigned to write a fairly extensive research paper on early fourth and fifth century music. After a couple of brain explosions and mental breakdowns, I had a breakthrough when I discovered the writings of a philosopher we know as Boethius. Boethius was a philosopher, mathematician, musician, and a consultant for the… View Article
No matter what level of education you have, it’s easy to recognize the importance of punctuation. We recognize the weight of commas in sentences like “let’s eat, Grandma” versus this version with the omitted comma: “let’s eat Grandma.” One other punctuation mark I used quite frequently in my sentence structures as a child was that… View Article
There I was, braced in-between that big leather chair and the scary metal contraption used to tell all of my eyeball’s secrets. The eye doctor has a fantastic way of asking you obscure questions and causing you to second guess every answer you give him. “Can you see this?” “No.” “Really?” “Uhh…maybe?” On and on… View Article