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  • People say I'm the properest person they know. Those who know me personally say it's because of the way I sit and the way I talk. But even people I only know online think I'm proper. Jason thinks I tumbled out of Jane Au…

  • Why are weddings so rare in literature? They're common in movies, yet the only book I know of that describes a wedding is Anna Karenina. Most novels focus on courtship, romance, quarrels and the whole nexus of events l…

  • I've been requested a couple times to describe Amy's wedding, and I'd planned to do that anyway. Those of you who don't know Amy can move on. However, younger Scholaites, be aware Amy is a Schola alumna, and therefore a …

  • Perhaps I can finish the story of our coastal adventures tonight. What's your guess? So the plan was to eat the pie after the boys got back. They were gone quite a bit longer than they said they'd be, but I had plenty t…

  • I'm off to bridesmaid! Pray for the Lord's rich blessing on the wedding and marriage of John Sloan and Amy Simmons - two devout and lovely people whom I very, very dearly love! They have done more to set me a Christlike …

  • I missed a day! I'm sorry. I'll see how much further I get in my summary of the trip. Not that y'all are on the edge of your seats, dying to know everything that happened, but I hope it's mildly entertaining for those of…

  • Apologies for the abrupt ending yesterday. I was trying to post before midnight, so that today's post wouldn't register on the same day. I know. I'm picky about weird things sometimes. All those late-night IM conversati…

  • This is the summary. Detailed descriptions of various adventures will follow, if they deserve a description unto themselves. So . . . Tuesday morning we - Kent, Kyle and I - headed out for Morehead, after a very import…

  • YEEHAW I have had the most exciting, most rambunctious, most adventurous, just plain coolest week ever. Y'all will definitely be hearing stories!

  • Morehead City, here we come!!!!

  • I'd finished stretching by the time I realized I'd forgotten my shoes, and since I didn't care to run three miles barefoot, I went upstairs to get them. In my room I got sidetracked looking through a stack of Mars Hill A…

  • The Braves are indestructible, indefatigable, and amazing. With Adam LaRoche, Marcus Giles and Horacio Ramirez out injured, and Chipper and Andruw Jones struggling in a big way, with even their replacement players (DeWay…

  • Kent and I agreed lastnight that if we've realized these two things by the time we die, it will be only because of a miraculous work of God. God is real. The Bible is true. I'm not sure I'll ever fully realize either …

  • I bring you tidings from Emptyland, where all the directions are, and a wealth of information from my illustrious tour guide through Pooh Town, where a bust of Pooh, a Rebel flag, and a Melchior from an old nativity set …

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