May 2011
1 post
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become...”
– Ingrid Bergman
April 2011
7 posts
The Whos and the Thats
A few days back, April 7th to be exact, I was thinking about grammar as I so often do, and was getting increasingly annoyed over the fact that people misuse the words “who” and “that”. When speaking about people we say “who”, like the boy who cried wolf. When speaking about objects we say “that”, like the ball that rolled. We don’t say the...
“That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and...”
– Rhett Butler
True Love is Alive
What is love? A child would call it “mom and dad”. A teenager would call it “that warm, fuzzy feeling”. Most adults would call it “sex”.But Christians call it “Jesus Christ”. I remember once when I was at winter camp in 2009, I was in a relationship comparable to a bipolar monkey trying to get through the day. Up at camp, they would teach us a new...
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness...”
– CS Lewis
I'm No Cinderella
I’m not like all the other girls. I never had a standard of meeting my prince charming, nor did I ever believe I was any kind of Cinderella. But then I read Gone with the Wind. And then I watched the movie. While Cinderella and Prince Charming had a perfect little happily ever after relationship, Scarlett and Rhett had, well, a Scarlett and Rhett relationship. And I wanted it. I wanted that...
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime...”
– Winston Churchill