Traffic jams don’t really bother me.  Neither do long lines in Wal-Mart or the grocery store.  I don’t get stressed when it takes me ages to get my food in a restaurant. 
I’m generally pretty patient.  Hello.  I work with nine year olds.  I have to be.
Truth be told, I can only think of two things [...]

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I was just a kid when I started college.  I’d never been away from home and I had no idea how the world worked outside of a 50 mile radius of that house on a hill in Nowhere, MS.  But, even so, I was a dreamer.  I guess I always have been I just hadn’t put [...]

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I need to take a deep, cleansing breath.
Because if I don’t some folks might die today and that’s just not becoming of a lady, now is it?
A list should suffice as the aforementioned deep, cleansing breath.

I cannot expect people to value my time as much as I do.
Manizales weather does NOTHING for my hair.
It’s fall [...]

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I know.  I know.  I promised Saturday, but by the end of this post you’ll feel sorry for me.  And if you don’t, just don’t tell me.  I like to believe that the world is sympathetic.  Thanks.
Yes, I had a fantastic trip to the Amazon.  It was all that I expected and more.  It was [...]

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Coffee is a staple of Colombian culture.  Go figure, right?
The line of people going into and coming out of the staff room with their steaming mugs is as constant as a train of ants at a church picnic.  I admit that I look at them longingly.  I want to fit into that social circle.  I want [...]

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I love writing this blog.  It gives me an outlet and a chance to scribble a bunch of nonsense every once in a while and that’s a good thing.  Otherwise my brain gets all crowded and I say things out loud in front of strangers.  And then said strangers look at me like I’ve lost [...]

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I love far off places and far-fetched dreams.  I love people and purpose, protecting the broken and pretending that fairies might really exist.  I travel frequently and lightly.
I like being barefoot and wet-headed.  I love lasting friendships and conversations with strangers.  I adore books and music and the idea of living in a little cabin [...]

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I have a crush on a vampire.  (thank you, Twilight Saga)
The smell of strawberries makes me think of my Mamaw.
Oh, trail mix, how I miss thee.
I’d pay an obscene amount of money to meet my Sisser for a movie.
There’s nothing better than a box fan and a nap.
I got a package today and then I sort [...]

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Walking through my parents’ yard sometimes feels like a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  There are flowers of every kind that grow in their soil.  Blossoms that are rich in color and invite you to walk among them. 
There are purple cone flowers and daisies and black-eyed susans and lilies of every hue.  Blooms that stretch a bit [...]

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I’m sitting at my desk. There’s a dictionary in front of me opened to the word “asinine” because I’d like to use it someday. There’s a battered Spanish/English dictionary as well and a thesaurus is tucked comfortably beneath it.
My journal is among the clutter. On the last page there are words and phrases [...]

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