Springing forward

I am back home from college until September, which feels like such a relief. No more 10 page research papers or roommates (to a certain extent). I have time to read. It seems like such a novel concept as I practically inhale books when I get the chance.
Over the past two days, I have read [...]

Fighting the Good Fight

First off, my blog has reached over 1,000 hits since its conception in July 2008! That is amazing! If you look at my ClusterMap, you will see  that the readers of this blog do not only span North America, where I am from, but they are from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, and Australia! [...]

Sitting, waiting, wishing…

I spent an entire day with a 10 year old girl. A very energetic, talkative, sweet, and funny girl who was busy from the time she woke up at 9:30 this morning until 7:30 when her sister came and picked her up from my house. Though I feel like I want to sleep until 4:00 tomorrow [...]

So plant the thought and watch it grow…

Tomorrow I will become the proud (though temporary) owner of a 10 year old girl. My littlest sister’s best friend and I will be spending quality time together from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Her mom called me this afternoon in a panic because she needs to go the City all day tomorrow and wants someone [...]