Annie Downs 5 Minute Read by Annie F. Downs I finally purchased new glasses yesterday. I began wearing glasses in 4th grade. I have been a committed contact wearer since 8th grade, which was approximately 1994.Since then, I believe I could count on my fingers how many times I have worn my glasses.And I can count on my right thumb…
Jessica Telian 3 Minute Read Lately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about beauty. Not the girl of that nickname that I met in Thailand (though she did cross my mind), but of beauty as defined by Webster: “the quality attributed to whatever pleases or satisfies the senses or mind, as by line, color, form, texture, proportion, rhythmic motion, tone,…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines To be quite honest, I don’t care what anyone else has to say about beauty. All that matters is that I am beautiful to my man….
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read In the 1963 Walt Disney film Summer Magic, Hayley Mills sings an adorable little song that would have ended up on the cutting room floor in this day and age—if it had even made it that far, which is doubtful. She and Deborah Walley cheerfully instruct another girl on the wiles of womanly allurement as…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “I have found that a man will usually be as much of a gentleman as a lady requires and probably no more.” -Elisabeth Elliot Five years ago, I wrote in an article on how to treat the men in your life: “You have a huge influence on the life of every boy or man you…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read The following was posted by my friend Claire M. on her online journal and I thought it was too good not to share with a larger audience. Guaranteed to bring a laugh and make you think. -Natalie My orthodontist recently got new appointment cards printed. They’re green instead of blue, personalized with his snazzy new…
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