I’ll Be Happy When… (Waiting for Your Life to Start)

Meet Lisa, my childhood best friend... someone who has seen me in my most glorious AND my most immature moments from days gone by... We were so cool that we even had our own secret code language and hand signals. Yay for us. Aren't we cool?! Anyway, I'm so excited to have Lisa as a…

Every Bible Verse has an “Ali Paraphrase”

Thoughts on meditating on the scriptures, finding your voice in the Word of God, and personally building up your spirit: When I read my Bible, my journal is not far away. I like to read passages of scripture and then meditate on the words I've read, and see what the Holy Spirit speaks to my…

The Unsolved Life: Fumbling and Failing on a Sabbatical

Over the course of my sabbatical, I have found it hard to write "a full thought" on paper (or shall I say, on screen). For all of those amazing people who write books when they're on sabbatical, I am not one of them! Here I am, a writer (amateur and unpublished, but I'd still consider…