The following story is true. I’m not a good enough writer to make this kind of stuff up. I never bargained on being in the belly of the whale. At that point, my life was pretty great. I was 24, working in my first job out of college and having a great time. I had a great mentor in my boss, a good working environment, an apartment I shared with my best friend from high…
I hang out with an awesome group of women on Wednesday nights. I am the oldest of the group (shocker…) and their leader, for lack of a better term. Mainly, that means I select the books or passages we read and try to keep us on track in our conversations. Both tasks are harder than you would think. I just came back from one of our meetings, uplifted and encouraged by what God is doing…
I have a crush on my kickboxing instructor. Physically, he’s exactly my type – tall, blonde, gangly, kind of goofy looking. Just the kind of man I’ve been falling for since I was 14. He’s crazy intense during these classes, getting up in our faces and urging us to push harder, kick higher, run faster than we thought we could. Since I’m just a wee bit competitive, I turn into a kickboxing demon when faced…
Internet dating is not for the faint of heart. I’ve been fighting the Internet dating wars for a decade now, and while I don’t consider myself one of the walking wounded, I’ve certainly got some stories to tell. And when I tell them, my sweet friend Emily often says, “Sprague, you’re the bravest woman I know.” I don’t know about that. All I know is that I keep going back into battle. I’m in the…
(And now that I’ve typed that headline, I feel like I’ve oversold things. An inauspicious beginning, to be sure. But, here goes…) As some, but not many, people know, the last few months have been a bit of a roller coaster for me. I had an awesome job, which unfortunately got not-so-awesome for me around Christmas, and I decided (after lots of prayer and discernment) to leave it at the beginning of February. I’ve had…