Tag: life
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Tate the Savage
My brother Tate has autism. He is the most popular guy around and makes everyone laugh. Sometimes he is intentionally funny and sometimes he is downright brutal. Tate has a facebook account and it keeps us on our toes. Recently our sister’s cat died. Our sister has had this cat for almost 10 years and…
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Home By Way of Culvers
There is a sweet lady at our congregation with Williams Syndrome. She lives with her elderly mother and lots of people help take care of her. (Taking her on outings, out to eat, to and from church.) One night the person who was giving her a ride had a family emergency and so she asked…
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Being Typecast in Life
Have you ever been given a label and it stuck with you for… well forever? I have worn a lot of labels in my life. Some good, some bad. Some I don’t worry about and others plague me. One such example: Kids. I love kids. I truly do. I think they’re cute and funny and…
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Making Friends as an Adult
Guess what’s hard… making friends as an adult! Why? Because small talk kills the soul and it’s so weird to invite adults to hang out. Does it have to be awkward? No. But do I end up feeling awkward 90% of the time? Definitely. I am going to start introducing myself as a “recovering anxious…
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My Life at a Christian University
Part 1: Arrival At 18 years old my parents helped me load up my Grandparents’ old Buick and make the trek 9 hours east to college in Tennessee. I attended a private christian school with about 2,000 undergrad students. There were 2-3 girls for every guy, and instead of fraternities or sororities we had co-ed…
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Romanticize Your Life
If you’re anything like me you really enjoy personality type quizzes like the enneagram or myers-briggs. (If you don’t know what the enneagram is… it’s kind of like the Christian answer to astrology.) I am an enneagram 4w5. And I romanticize EVERYthing. It’s potentially a problem. I love things that are cheesy and sweet. I…
Redheaded Jill 