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I want to give a thank you shout-out to Colette Cope, who got my blog listed on PennLive.com!
To find me, go to PennLive.com, click “Local” and then look under “More Local Blogs”.  Or I suppose you could just keep coming the way you always do, via my feed, a bookmark, Facebook or whatever else.  I’m [...]

If you knew you could make someone’s day, would you do it?
I’m not even talking about someone you know.  It could be a complete stranger - someone you will meet once and then never see again.  Would you still do it?
It’s really easy.  All you have to do is the opposite of what they’re expecting.
I [...]

Can you believe that I graduated high school five years ago?  I can’t.
Though we’ve put this much time in between then and now, I’ve tried my hardest to stay true to myself.  According to my yearbook, that is what people wanted me to do.  I’ve taken a few excerpts of cool things people wrote - [...]

Three years ago today, I lost a close friend in an automobile accident.  Two days later, I lost another as a result of that same accident.  Looking at the calendar and realizing the significance of the date, I decided I would write this post.
Today, I’d like to honor not only their lives, but the lives [...]

Almost every summer, we take a journey down the Susquehanna River on suspect rafts and camp on a random island.  Since we do this almost annually, I’ve decided it should have a name.  Islandcamp it is.
I’ve also decided that I should try to chronicle our little adventure this year.  While uploading pictures and videos after [...]

So, it seems we’re in a bit of trouble.
The Mu Chi chapter of Alpha Phi Omega is now, for all intensive purposes, broke.  We were sitting on a hefty sum of money at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, and we’re now in the red.  How did we get this way?  Reckless spending, failure [...]

…the cover will look something like this.

Sometimes, we seem to think we know what life is. We try to encompass the vastness of it in inspirational quotes or in posters that we hang on our walls. We tag cute little sayings onto the ends of our emails or include them in our buddy info’s. Life is crazy. [...]