Ask Sarah for her Top 5: Laurel in College stories, and she’s bound to entertain you for a few hours if she can actually tell a complete story through her giggles and my protesting. One story that inevitably will come up must have happened sometime during the spring semester of our freshman year. We had been placed randomly as roommates in Reilly and were still building our friendship and ‘learning’ each others quirks. Not the easiest thing to do as two drastically different young women.

So I’m 4 pages into a 15 page Biology Lab Report when Sarah asks sweetly Click To Continue Reading…

I think if there was one single consistency, one thread of life that flows from experience to experience in my life, it would be music. What always astounds me is the effect a simple song on the radio can have on my day. Today I was driving through campus, returning from lunch with a friend, when an old Steven Curtis Chapman came on my iPod. Gotta love the shuffle songs feature. Within the first 15 seconds of a seemingly obscure song, I had tears welling up in my eyes. Immediately I had been transported back in time to the back seat of our mini van with my head phones on listening to my new Steven Curtis Chapman cd days before my 18th birthday. In high school (and honestly to this day) I loved anything SCC was apart of. His simple, meaningful lyrics with a strong melodic background never seemed to leave my discman. His cd Speechless has just been released and my dad, being the kind man he was, stopped at Gospel Supplies so I could buy it. This was way before the iPod, way before Napster. This was still during the time when you bought a cd and listened to it for the first time that day. It was an album not random songs. So as we drove across Tucson I listened in wonder to the album from beginning to end. No skipping. No repeats. Click To Continue Reading…