how do you answer this question? 1. i’m rebecca, the middle child of my parents, married for 32 years. i have an older brother and younger sister. my husband, bryan, and i have been married for 4 1/2 years. we’re both 26. [what have you been named and what generation are you a part of? [...]

so much of the Christian life involves submission. submission is something we’ve talked about in our married couples bible study, mainly in the context that wives are to submit to their husbands (ephesians 5:22). i cringe when i hear that, and i’m sure most of our society does too. we think it means that women [...]

unfortunately i am a sucker for top 40 music, which means i subject myself to droning beats and, the majority of the time, awful lyrics. case in point: #4 song title on itunes? ‘sexy and i know it.’ bruno mars has a song (‘it will rain,’ #8 if you must know) where he sings, ‘there’s [...]

this past weekend took me to two new cities: san francisco and phoenix. that’s not entirely true – i spent eight hours in sf for work in 2009, on california ave on the 32nd floor. on new year’s eve, i saw my sister in law and drank some bubbly. on new year’s day it was [...]

sometimes i play mental games to the extreme that i paralyze myself (let’s not talk about the fact that this topic actually has something to do with my last post being about SUMMER). do it, don’t do it. take it off the shelf, put it back on. it’s worth it, it costs too much (save [...]

it took some time, and a bit of traveling, but here we are basking in eighty-something degree weather, trying to define just what ‘mountain air’ smells like (pine? dust?) as we watch the deep pinks fade out of the sky with the last moment of sunset, only to turn around and watch the full moon [...]