No Longer Waiting I've got too much living to do

So, after my last inspirational post, which was so apparently so inspirational that I haven’t written anything since then, almost a YEAR ago in fact, you’d probably expect to find me svelte and slender and snacking on celery and rice cakes in a pair of jeggings. Sadly, no. Instead, you will find me

Hi.  My name is Angela. And I’m…overweight. There.  I said it. I’ve actually known this for a while now.  Now I am not saying this because I am fishing for compliments.  I am saying this because I am finally coming to grips with it.  I’m quite fascinated by this sudden realization, actually, because

I saw Julie & Julia recently.  Before I’d seen it, several people told me I needed to see it, and that the movie reminded them of me.  I don’t know what exactly about the movie reminded each person of me, but nevertheless I was intrigued.  Now, as you can probably imagine, as a woman with [...]

I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions.  Yet, I find myself reflecting on some things as we enter 2010, thus leading me to a couple resolutions conclusions.  2009 was a really good year for the Buckland family in many ways.  While it seemed that storms were raging all around us, we remained sheltered

Uh.  Hi.  Remember me?  I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t, considering that my last blog post was more than 3 months ago.  However, in my defense, life has been crazy for us lately.  A good kind of crazy, but crazy nonetheless.  I really haven’t been keeping up with reading any other blogs eithe

First of all, I have to give credit to the snappy title of this post to its creator, Mr. Wes Whitener.  It’s a song of his by his band The Sheeps.  You should totally check them out.  They rock.  I’ve been thinking about that song a lot lately.  I hope he’s not going to expect [...]

I am sure most of you have probably already read this poem before.  For some reason, I’m not sure I have ever seen it before.  My mom gave me a copy the other day, and it’s now on my fridge.  It is often attributed to Mother Teresa, called “The Anyway Poem,” because she had it [...]

I think it should be required by law of every Christian in America to take at least a few college courses in modern psychology.  It’s appalling and becoming increasingly apparent to us and to the rest of the world just how ignorant we’ve allowed ourselves to become concerning even the most basic sub

I am so tired of hearing the message of “Whatever you’re currently doing isn’t enough.”  I’m sure you’ve heard this message in one form or another.  It’s the pervading message of the world all around us.  Got a problem?  Well, you probably did something to deserve it.  I am certainly not trying to a

Well, I got such great feedback from everyone with the last post.  So, if you haven’t had enough of dualism yet, there’s a whole lot more where that came from, and I think it’s my new found calling in life to bring it to the masses ad nauseum.    I read this article by Nancy [...]