Finally,

After months of wedding insanity, working long hours at a summer camp, moving across the country, and setting up home here in Wheaton, I've finally settled on a new blog. My old blogs (pre-name change and school-related) have finally gone by the wayside, and I'm left with a new sort of "blank book". It is both exciting and daunting to start a new blog because you want to write anything and everything all at once, to have more posts for people to reference and plenty of information to give insight, but I've decided not to get ahead of myself... there's plenty to write, but not all of it is worthy of spilling here.

I'll be writing some topical posts sometime soon, when I've organized my thoughts. The last post from my old blog sums it up fairly well:

"... one of these days when I have the time, I'm going to write several blogs... one about how frustrating it is when Christians debate the insignificant, one about how much we as followers of Christ complicate love (something so very simple, so much simpler than we make it out to be, and we also take on the world's view of love when our relationships should stand so obviously apart from the rest, but that's another topic completely), and one about our society as a whole: the loss of modesty and etiquette and the importance of self.

It may sound like bitterness, but it's truly not. I'm just realizing that Christians have all the cheesecake in the world at their fingertips, and are choosing mud pies instead."

So these are some hefty topics I've been exploring... along with the way American Journalism has gone and how much it has strayed from the pursuit of journalistic truth. That's another story.

At times I feel that there is so much circling in my head, so many opinions forming and truths being discovered, that perhaps I will only write about these things as they come up in everyday life, as opposed to playing catch-up from the last few months. In the meantime I'll leave you with this... life has been beautiful. I am learning so much, loving spending time with my wonderful husband Joel, and grateful to have been brought to the midwest as I look out of my balcony onto a completely white landscape.

Happy December.