Chilihead at Don’t Try This At Home is asking about our “blogging stories”. Sounded like fun, so I thought I’d join. Click here to read all the other stories! How did you start blogging? I started blogging in April of 2004 because of my friend, Beth. I was immediately addicted. I started with Blogger and moved to WordPress in December of 2005. Did you intend to be a blog with a following? If so, how did you go about it?…
Originally published on December 1, 2006 at Onward & Upward I’m certainly not the person to write a post about simplicity! I must confess, in the past few years I have departed from my missionary kid upbringing to embrace the consumerism of Americans. I have always been an impulse buyer, but it’s become even more dangerous now that I bring home a substantial paycheck (substantial meaning more than my baby-sitting wages of high school). I have fallen into the trap…
Originally published on September 20th, 2006 at Onward & Upward Last week, I picked up a copy of Jars of Clay‘s newest CD, “Good Monsters”. Jars of Clay is my all-time favorite music group; I’ve followed them since their first CD. I love the style of music and I love their lyrics, and in my opinion their new CD does not disappoint! One song on this album really jumped out at me. Recently, I’ve been thinking about our own mortality….
Originally published on September 27th, 2006 at Onward & Upward It was several weeks ago when I found out about the “arrangement”. In my line of work, you have to pay close attention to details in order to avoid mistakes. (That’s probably true for any line of work, but especially in graphic design.) A misspelled word on an ad that’s printed 150,000 copies isn’t a good thing! I am very detailed-oriented – that’s one of the gifts God has blessed…
*Note: I am going to be reprinting some of my favorite posts from Onward & Upward blog, mostly because I want to be able to back them up in one place for future safekeeping. So I hope you enjoy the rereads. :-) Originally published on July 20th, 2006 at Onward & Upward. “…And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If…