http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/ Riding the Waves . . . Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:35:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/41.html Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:33:02 GMT I have never felt so conflicted in all my life. For me, it's even more difficult to understand than the inward battle between old nature and new nature. I want to write with all my heart, but when the time comes to pick up the pen and put it down, the passion dies and its ghost howls within, screaming for the will to be let out. Every time. It doesn't matter that everything else is in place. The motivation, the desire, the life – it fails. I like to write. I really do. I just don't have a reason to. Wherever in the four corners of the earth that reason is supposed to come from, I have no... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=41 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/40.html Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:32:52 GMT I wrote this for our school paper. Those of you who either go to Corban or a similar Christian college will understand. And if you don't go to a school like that, just imagine a huge church singles group. Thirteen Proposals WARNING: The words you are about to read may contain material that is bothersome to those with a weak sense of humor or a tendency to misunderstand an author's intent. Persons with these conditions are advised to skip ahead to the next (much more sensible) article. All names mentioned in this article are actually held in the highest regard by the writer. Thank you for... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=40 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/38.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:21:10 GMT This has been one of the longest weeks of my life. It all began last Monday night, when I was driving my '88 Corolla back from Portland to Salem. I was halfway when the annoying rattle in my car suddenly became pieces falling out of my hood on to the freeway. There was so much smoke coming out of my hood, I thought the car was going to explode, and there was a good chance I could die. I ended up having to pull over and walk three-quarters of a mile to the nearest gas station and use the pay phone. The next morning Meineke told me that a loose rod had poked a hole in my engine block. Which is... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=38 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/36.html Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:58:52 GMT Is it silly that I'm trying to feel grown-up tonight by putting on my pajamas, pulling out the ginger ale, and drinking it after a late shift at work? It's not often that I get good stories at work, but this one was too good not to remember. A tall man with a gray beard was talking on his cell phone as he walked up to my checkstand. He was grinning as he came up, but not at me, although he did give me a quick smile. He never said out loud exactly who he was talking to, but I want to believe it was his wife. "Who would ever thought back then when we were in that closet?" He chuckled to... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=36 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/35.html Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:07:08 GMT "How to Make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich With an Iron" LOL I'm totally going to do it, too. :D http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=35 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/34.html Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:18:18 GMT I hate to put this post in the category of those many blogs that go something like "rawr my life sux i hate it at home os much my family iz dumb" etc., but sometimes . . . I dunno. So I got back from Camp Team last week on Saturday. Ohmygoodness, the best summer of my life. Which is so wonderful -- my first summer of counseling two years ago went pretty well, but ended on a downer; then my second summer went okay but I felt like a crappy counselor because I got absorbed in my own problems -- but this summer was astounding. My team bonded, which I totally did not expect -- I had AMAZING... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=34 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/32.html Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:37:14 GMT It's rare the times that I feel compelled to write, so I'm making the most of the opportunity. So the latest Christian fad is a book called Blue Like Jazz, written by one Don Miller, who lives in Portland, Oregon. When it came out a few months ago, I avoided it at all costs, to make sure I was not one of the silly people who picks up whatever Christian book happens to be cool at the moment. Whether or not that's actually true . . . anyway. Well, it held on so long that I knew I had to read it. (There is a point where a fad ceases to be a fad and becomes something worthy to talk about.)... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=32 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/31.html Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:48:10 GMT I got tagged by Jenyar, so here goes. 1) My friends laugh at me for what they call the "Numa Numa" dance. 2) Whenever I have lots of homework, I cope with stress by playing all day and then starting it after everyone goes to bed -- at 1 in the morning. 3) I use the same cup for at least three days in a row and stick it in the fridge. Why should you have to wash more than one? 4) I have the worst time getting out of bed. I'm always the last one out of the four girls that live in this apartment. 5) I've become attached to my Spider-Man fleece blanket. I sleep with it at night. All right!... (more) http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=31 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:10:13 GMT "Anaso Sopor, Oohcorolla of Ibuprofen." What's YOUR Star Wars name? http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:23:38 GMT During a conversation about gestation times and humans vs. elephants: "I do NOT want to take care of a pregnant man!!" Laura said that being a pregnant as an elephant would be better, because it would take 8 months to actually start showing, but Holly held that 22 months would take way too long for anything to happen. I was just wondering what it would be like if men and women could trade off being pregnant. "Honey, isn't it your turn this time?" http://comicsmaverick.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29