Around fourteen months ago I got a phone call from my oldest brother. It started something like this: "Kait. I've met a girl. She's like no one I have ever known. Her name is Lucy." I could not have guessed where this conversation would one day lead. I have watched... | Continue »

So I've neglected my writing...for a WHILE. Mostly abiding by the rule taught by every southern girl's momma: "If you can't say somethin' nice then don't say anything at all." Most of my handful of readers know that it fell upon me to find a new apartment, and FAST. Due... | Continue »

Truth. Kait never meant to kill. GOOD GRIEF THIS CLASS. | Continue »

I am a words person. Words move me. Speak to me. Inspire me. Today while "pinteresting," I stumbled upon these words: "In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer." And they reverberated down to my core. Saturday night while driving home from downtown San... | Continue »

I have a quiz in my Sensation and Perception Lab tomorrow. A test in my Psyc Testing class on Tuesday. A hypothesis due Wednesday. And what am I doing? Watching The Notebook, of course. There are certain days, days that stretch longer than others, when it seems impossible to think... | Continue »

I turned on Pandora for some musical inspiration, and the very first song that came on was Brad Paisley's "Then." This song played in First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas on September 5, 2009, as my husband and I lit our unity candle. I remember looking into his face, admiring... | Continue »

It's inevitable. There's a lot of days in seven months. 213 to be exact. One or two of them are bound to be Alexander days. You know, those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days? Yea. Today was one of them. Today is a day when moving forward seems unbearable;... | Continue »

Going on day four of being awake well into the wee morning hours. Sleep evades me. The cold, clenching feeling of worry does not. I don't want to be one of those dramatic wives who immediately starts freaking out the moment their husband steps foot into Afghanistan. I've come too... | Continue »

Today my husband finally arrived at his duty post in Afghanistan. He left almost two weeks ago and while we have been apart, the real deployment had yet to begin. He has spent his days attending briefs and classes, gathering all the necessary information for what he was about to... | Continue »

"7th Heaven" (1927) 1st Academy Awards (1929) 5/5 Stars Nominated for 5 awards, of which it won 3. Nominated for Art Direction (Harry Oliver) and Outstanding Picture. Won Best Actress (Janet Gaynor), Directing--Dramatic (Frank Borzage), and Writing--Adaptation (Benjamin Glazer). Watched: July 13, 2012. This film is the definition of a... | Continue »

Saturday Night Fever (1977) 50th Academy Awards, 1978 3/5 Stars Nominated for 1 Oscar: best actor (John Travolta). Box Office: $237.1 million (Rotten Tomatoes). Watched: July 7, 2012. Rated: R First of all, I love the 70s. Everything about this John Badham film screamed the 70s. The style, the hair,... | Continue »