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1.  i’ve got prettiness hanging above my bed. 2.  i received a “notice of delinquency” from the government today.  i’ve never found anything quite so humorous. 3.  i’m looking at tickets to go to idaho.  what in the world is in idaho?  friends.  and a friend getting married to another friend.  and faces and people i haven’t seen [...]

i think i shall start wearing my lipstick just like this.

i have much to be thankful for.  photos to illustrate my items of thankfulness are so much more entertaining.  so i used my handy-dandy cell phone to try and collect a few throughout my last 24 hours. 1. my rock star sister.  she’s been driving around the states for the last few weeks in a bus full [...]

squishy claire.  the youngest of our babes.  i tell her that she’s the prettiest and the happiest and the most kissable and everything else wonderful.  and sometimes i get lucky and she’s in the same room as me for a whole evening.  like tonight. you don’t mind a post full of her precious face, do you? good.  here [...]

today was… today.  at one point i said i hated it.  another time i exclaimed that i loved it.  with head in my hands i cried and said, “it’s just hard to love Jesus when you don’t love much about your life.” (selfish, i know).  this evening my fingers played my prized possession and i sang [...]

yes please, i would like to be this darling.
so, dear jesus, please move me to a place with many thrift stores to thrift through.  thank you and amen.

Easter Sunday is full.  starting before the sun rises to when the sun slips beyond the horizon we have our traditions.  the celebration of life begins through the morning greetings, to the life-filled colors we wear, to the worship surrounded by hundreds of other grateful souls, to soaking up the presence of those we’ve been given to [...]

there once was a midget sprout named peach.  she was a jolly sort who enjoyed her days surrounded by a googleplex of other sprouts.  although happy little sprouts, the wind and rain and dirt had not been kind to them and they never could get their leaves to sit just right after being blown about.  one day a lion happened upon this [...]

i’m sitting in bed and noticed that my left big toe is asleep.  odd, right?  it doesn’t really worry me but looking for some entertainment, i google.  apparently there are many others who suffer from the left big toe asleep disorder and most are urged to go see their doctor. i just went to my doctor this past [...]

i’m a list sort of person.  i have lists at work scribbled on random pieces of paper as things come to mind.  i have a list always open right in my email full of personal and yet again, work related projects.  i have lists in my head of people i want to spend time with and [...]

is there a much better way to end your day than a heaping plate of citrus goodness?

i didn’t think so either.

she was in the hallway the other day while waiting for a meeting.  tiredness had replaced her usual energetic love for everything around and she stood awkwardly still, hands clasped in front of her, while i casually asked how her day was going. she answered, “uhh… not good actually, but that’s okay.”  i hadn’t really been expecting [...]

“HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on [...]

i’m not home many evenings.  actually, it’s quite pathetic how not home i usually am.  i forget how much i need these quiet evenings (not to mention how much a dirty bathroom and laundry need me).  so tonight is a down night (which means that i keep busy with lots of things that don’t involve getting in my car and [...]

i have a million saved drafts here in the private workings of louissa.com.  some i deemed not clever enough to amuse while others revealed too much of the soul for your eye to see and so they were never published.  but they’re here.  someday i’ll go through them and find amusement at unfinished sentences, long ramblings of [...]

i turn 22 tomorrow.  twenty-two. doesn’t that seem ancient when compared to the simple and ordinary and young sound of 21? i have a reputation for adoring my very own birthday (i think everyone secretly feels the same way about their own special day — they just don’t like to openly admit it) and although this year i just [...]

i’ve always heard about santa leaving charcoal in stockings for bad little children and i know of charcoal drawings (although i’ve never myself given it a try) and i also have experienced the difficulty in trying to light charcoal for your summertime barbecue, but i have never ever heard of a person ingesting it into their system. until tonight. [...]

right this very minute, i would like… to find time to paint my nails to climb a small mountainish sort of hill this weekend to have a companion who reads 1 John to me at top of said mountainish hill to not work in my blue office anymore to continue working in my blue office if it’s [...]

if it’s possible to drown your sorrows in cheese danish then i do believe i’m in the middle of it as i type.  under covers in bed, laptop open, and cheese danish beside me slowly being devoured. do i have sorrows to drown?  i don’t think so, but it’s ever so much fun to pretend.  i could [...]

yeah, you’re right to guess that this photo was staged.  i’m not really sleeping.  i had just woken from my lovely nap and am feigning sleep to get my point across.
but aren’t naps on sunday afternoons the best?