Vocation is a scary word. I don’t think I ever heard it until orientation during my freshman year of college, and then suddenly, we were bombarded with questions such as, “Who am I?” “Where am I going?” “Why am I here?” I mostly shrugged them off. It was clear to me that I was Amanda [...]
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November 22, 2009
Some Good Comes Out of Hickory
In spite of the many southerners in Hickory, NC that are “hard up” for employment and other good fortune, Hickory-ite Jeffrey Weber stands alongside such successful citizens as Katie Holmes.
No really, he’s standing beside her.
While the rest of Hickory wasted their time getting into the furniture and textile businesses, Weber had enough sense to know [...]
November 10, 2009
The H-k-y Featured in the Washington Post
Well shoot. My small-ish hometown of Hickory, NC is finally featured in the Washington Post…but this, my friends, is NOT good news. No, similar to a good 80% of all stories in big papers around the US at this point in time, Hickory shows up in yet another article about unemployment in the economic crisis.
Just [...]
October 26, 2009
Vaseline for Halloween
This Halloween, if you want to please everyone, you should probably just hand out little tubs of Vaseline. Why, you might ask? Well, after consulting with the Emmaus House (one of the LVC houses) this evening, I learned that Vaseline – or petroleum jelly – has an incredible number of uses. I’ve included a list [...]
October 23, 2009
Rock n Mole
Contrary to what my housemate Allison thinks, you can only blog about Mole Day once a year, and today’s the day! Happy Mole Day, everyone. Now if anything from my highschool education stuck with me, it was that the unit of measurement called a “mole” is 6.02 x 10^23. It sure wasn’t my chemistry teacher [...]
October 13, 2009
a new hobby
Mural painting. I was an art major in college, but I have NO experience painting murals. Until now. Unfortunately, it’s not really the kind of hobby you can practice! When Pastor Karen came to me with the idea of painting St. Francis on the door of Luther Place Church, I must be honest and say [...]
October 8, 2009
Housies!
This website most certainly needs a makeover… since my life has basically had one! I am no longer doing LVC in DC, and I am no longer leading the life of a volunteer (though working for the church may as well be volunteering). Upon returning from a most fantastic roadtrip with my sister, it was [...]
September 21, 2009
Day 7 of 7
(a report on me and my sister’s roadtrip…)
Day 7 – back to Napa via the Redwood National Forest
Ah, the final day of our trip! Erin and I were sad for the end, but with a long day’s drive ahead of us, we were sure there was something good still in store! It was our last [...]
September 20, 2009
Day 6 of 7
(a report on me and my sister’s roadtrip…)
Day 6 – Olympic National Park & Salem, Oregon
Erin and I woke up bright and early since we only had until around noon to check out Olympic National Park.
This park was MASSIVE and completely different from all other parks we had ever visited. With most parks, you drive [...]
September 17, 2009
Day 5 of 7
(a report on me and my sister’s roadtrip…)
Day 5 – Seattle, Washington
Unfortunately, our time at Mt. Rainier was over by 7am. We really did this trip ADHD style, not staying too long in any one place. Most of the time, we preferred that. We’d leave a place and Erin and I would look at each [...]
