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Attack of the Love Bugs
At the risk of having my blog censored for adult-content, I must comment on the love bugs in Florida this time of year. They are everywhere. And they are massive. Massive bugs making love in the air. And they’re doing their thing while acrobatically landing on your arm, face, et cetera. It is really quite […]
Jenelle
May 25, 2007
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Road Trippin’ to Frostburg
On Thursday I took a nice long drive through Maryland–from La Plata to Frostburg. (If MD looks like a raggedy pistol, I started at the trigger and ended up near the pistol tip.) The mountains were really incredible. I forget how much I’m an introvert until I have these long-drives to myself that shoot energy […]
Jenelle
May 12, 2007
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Stinky Feet Theory
I have this new theory. I think that traveling sets off a strange chemical reaction in the laboratory of our shoes that emits a stronger-than-normal-foot-odor. Or maybe I just need to throw away my favorite “travel shoes.” Either way, my post-travel stank is really amazing. I’ve just returned from a renegade 3-day trip (back) to […]
Jenelle
March 30, 2007
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To Play Like a Child Again – Part 2
Tomorrow morning I’ll board a bus with about 30 folks from our church youth group to go skiing, snowboarding, and snow-tubing in Pennsylvania. I’m going to play in the snow like a child again! I need it. And our group needs it. Communities that play together stay together. I’ve always wanted to snowboard, and in […]
Jenelle
March 3, 2007
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Frozen Maryland, She Welcomes Me
Before I walked through security at LAX this morning, I paused out in the sunshine and just sort of smiled into it for a few awkward moments. I’d heard rumors of icy stuff in Baltimore, but tried to forget it for one more warm California ray. Maryland has welcomed me with her freezing open arms, […]
Jenelle
February 25, 2007
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Grocery Listing
Greetings from defunct blogdom and from Pasadena*, California, home of the original Trader Joe’s**! I am mad about this grocery store. It’s fresh, organic, cheap, and witty. And they have free samples! I love free samples! And it’s not so monstrous a store that I need a map to find my way around. I miss […]
Jenelle
February 12, 2007
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Euro-centric Travelista
Brian, Carla, and Phil’s blogs each have lured me into doing this World 66 where-I’ve-been-map. (B, C, and P are all 24-7 prayer folk in Europe. When I grow up I want to be like them.) It seems that I need to visit a continent other than Europe. But, I agree with Phil, I think […]
Jenelle
December 22, 2006
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Sunset Over Baltimore
Jenelle
December 5, 2006
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Waking in London
I’ve just spent the last few days in London with the ladies of Young Life Europe. Worshipping God alongside of them was more than refreshing, it was awakening. It almost felt like I was playing the guitar for the first time. The best gift of the trip, though, was getting to spend these few days […]
Jenelle
December 4, 2006
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Musing in Bawlmer
Greetings from Baltimore. A.K.A. “The Greatest City in America,” and, even more hysterical (considering the literacy rate), “The City that Reads.” I love Baltimore. She is the rough, sassy, audacious younger sister to Washington, D.C, just forty minutes up highway 95. I always loved inventing the rivalry between these two close cities. I’m still a […]
Jenelle
September 28, 2006
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View from the clouds
I am on a plane headed to Kansas City. There’s a nice view. I salute Southwest Airlines. They are cheap. (Ahem…the flight from Denver to KC cost the same as filling up my car’s gas tank in Portugal.) And they serve plane-shaped crackers! They are such a crack-up when they give the safety-instructions. Today our […]
Jenelle
September 3, 2006
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Jesus loves me, this I know.
Here I am, in Colorado, at Missions Training International, for a week of de-briefing my three and a half years in Portugal. I’m with about twenty other missionaries returning from countries like Ethiopia, Haiti, Russia, and the like. We’re all processing the emotions of leaving America to make a foreign culture a home, and then […]
Jenelle
August 31, 2006