: About Me

I'm a blonde who's trying to restore some semblance of honor to her species. We're not all typical, and we're not all dumb as bricks. ;)

I'm a fangirl who will talk your ears off about everything from Muse to The Matrix to Malcolm Reynolds. (You'll discover most of my favorite things begin with 'M'.)

I'm a college student: part slacker, part overachiever... rarely able to strike the right balance, and trying to feel at home away from home.

I'm a Christian who seeks truth in a Person - a God who once walked the same Earth I do - not a list of rules in a Pharisee's fist.

I'm a writer who squeezes every ounce of meaning she can into, and out of, words.

I'm a musician who prefers no audience: my piano is my therapy.

Ultimately, I love - and thank - the people in my life who keep nudging me forward, so that every day I can break off another piece of my shell, and know better who I am without it.

My passion is ...

Christ

I know too much about ...

The Matrix trilogy

My parents always told me ...

if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.

My childhood ambition ...

to write stories people love.

Why I write ...

because I have a desire to connect with others.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton; Radiohead - "In Rainbows"

My inspiration ...

Madeleine L'Engle

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism How technology promotes atheism and agnosticism

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I'm a geek. And... wait for it... a Christian! How is this possible? I'm amazed that the answer is so inscrutable to people. Faith and reason are not, and never have been, mutually exclusive. Both are necessary aspects of life - and one without the other is crippled. The philosophers of old understood this completely, even those without any specific religion or monotheistic mindset. There was always some element of the undefinable present in their evaluations of the way the universe works, lives, and breathes. Granted - these days we know plenty more about the "how" of the world than they ...

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