The (first) One About Food

Fact: My husband and I love mac ‘n cheese. Fun Fact: My husband and I hate reheated mac ‘n cheese. Fact: There’s a 6oz container of leftover mac ‘n cheese sitting in my refrigerator. And here you find one of the quintessential adult struggles exacerbated by married life: having the self-control to eat leftovers. You …

Summer 2k17: Marriage and Memoir

I told myself that once I finish this blog post (signifying the true end of my semester) I can order the books that are serving as my preliminary work on my memoir. Yup, that’s right, my memoir. I’ve decided that this summer is the summer. It also helps that I’m doing this as part of …

All Writted Aht

It’s Thursday of finals week. I’m done (except for these two blog posts I have to make before tomorrow eventide). I’ve written more this week than probably the rest of the semester. I’ve written 32 handwritten pages in blue books for exams and over 16 typed pages of papers. It was exhausting. But I made …

Hubris, and Nothing More

I want to be the best at everything. My parents call it pride; I call it hubris. Because, you know, that’s smarter. Better even. I want to be famous some day for something. But nothing like normal people. I’d like to be famous for something odd, not infamous, mind you, that’s very different, but something …

When I Get Where I’m Going

Upon finishing the whole of The Divine Comedy, the phrase “with great knowledge comes great responsibility” stands out in my mind. I know that The Divine Comedy isn’t the Gospel or inspired by God’s inerrant word, but I think there are things contained therein that should present a challenge to the believer. Three themes/ideas really …

Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3

In my Interpersonal Communication class we’re writing letters. Real, hand written letters to whoever we want. It sounds easy, but it’s not. It seems that writing a good letter is more than just puking thoughts onto a page and sending it off in a nice neat envelope to your grandma or mom or fiancé. For …

Behind the “Journey”

Interestingly enough, this is the second blog post that I’ve considered titling “What’s in a Name.” Not really though. Too cliché. And we know how I feel about cliché titles… Anyways, so, why “Journey to Jasmine?” It all starts with my best friend and my fiancé. My lovely fiancé’s name is Tim Rice and my …

The Legging-Clad Crowd

For a tiny little town, boy does my “home” Starbucks attract a bunch of smart people. I’ve been to Starbuckses (is that right?) all over the place in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Connecticut. But none so pretentious as the Starbucks in my hometown of Hanover. My Starbucks sits off to the side of a highway …

Breaking

Admittedly, I am the last person in the universe you should listen to on the subject of taking a break. Quite frankly, I suck at taking breaks. That’s not to say that I am always busy working on school or something productive. I wish that was the case. But it’s not. To be honest, the …

A Defeat

I was watching a TV show with my best friends recently called The Man in the High Castle. Okay, I guess to be honest I’ve seen maybe a combined total of 30 minutes of the show over the course of two seasons. But I’ve heard enough to pique my interest. The basic premise of the …