Memoirs of a Redhead

Did you know that: 1. a bignonia is a tropical vine named after Louis the 15th’s librarian? 2.  Sarah Hale is the lady who wrote the words for the nursery rhyme "Mary had a Little Lamb"?-Mother Goose, my foot! 3.  P.U.F.F. stands for People United to Fight Frustrations 4. in…

Okay, I’m really not obsessed with pigs, but a couple of my newest friends, Anthony and Kari, just got one.  They ordered her from a pig breeder in Texas and had to pick her up from the airport today.  Here she is, isn’t she cute?  This reminds me of a…

         I’m sitting at Starbucks and although I don’t have an internet connection, I really want to blog (so I will post it later).  This is a great feeling, to be sitting at my laptop, with a peppermint mocha in hand, right in front of a real fire! …

For some people who are in my everyday life, they know that this past year has been one of great challenge and great change.  Without being able to fully articulate January through September, :), I found this song on Sara Groves’ website just now (I’m pretty pumped that my friend,…

You know how much I love my nephews by now…here’s Ryder (he’s 3 months old now!)

That was one of the closing lines of Grey’s Anatomy tonight.  A girl, a patient, stuck her hand on the stove burner to hopefully burn herself enough so that she wouldn’t have to take the Bar exam later that week.  Throughout the show we figured that that was the case,…

Tonight I came home from church and I had to wash some dishes.  As I was washing this bowl, I thought of my brother, Todd.  He’s the brother that I look like.  🙂  I was wondering what made him pop into my head and then I took a big whiff…

Last night I spend a few hours at my friend Rosalind’s house.  Our church organizes and puts on an event on Halloween night called, Light the Night.  We get groups of people together to go to certain houses (last night we had 3 houses) to light up really bright with…lights…

Before my current roommate nails me at home tonight, I thought I’d make a short ammendment to my comment about her the other day.  She is not under 5 feet tall…she is 5 feet tall. My apologies..:)

I’m only doing this because my friend, Suzanne, wanted me to, so bear with me 🙂 Is that the right "bear"? 6 Things! Rules: Each player of this game starts with the "6 weird things/habits about you". People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6…