by bianca | Jul 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
You were like a bullfighter, she said in her accented English. For the past six weeks you have baited and courted listeners to dive at danger and avoid getting hurt. And last night you gently pierced us to the heart. My aunt called me this morning to encourage me in...
by bianca | Jul 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
I make no qualms about the crushes I develop because they are spiritual crushes. Yes, spiritual. For instance, I can have a huge crush on Hudson Taylor because he was strong, brave, smart, daring… and dead. I have can a crush on John Calvin because he’s...
by bianca | Jul 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting at my desk preparing for the last Se7en Deadly Sins study and I’m stressing out. The kind of stress that makes you break out in a cold sweat (or hot flash if you’re menopausal)… the kind of stress that makes you wish you had another...
by bianca | Jul 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
I grew up poor which forced me to be resourceful. Sell lemonade in the winter, cut neighbors lawns so I could utilize their pool, and regift gifts at holidays (regifting is when you take something you already own and wrap it like it’s new). As a poor kid I had...
by bianca | Jul 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, that everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on the earth....