NIKI FLORICA

For the past few weeks, sitting down to blog has felt like staring at a solid wall and trying to see through it. And no, I'm not...

Crazy week, folks. Craaaazy week. Second-year has just begun and already there just aren't enough hours in the day; writing and...

I bombed my first driver's test. And, no, before you say, "Oh, I failed, too!" believe me when I say that mine was probably worse. In...

Imagine this. You have a dream about something you've been dreading. It goes badly. You screw up, or the whole shebang goes south in the...

Ideas. Why is that such a scary word? Don't get any ideas. She's been filling her head with ideas. I think sometimes we forget that life...

I'm usually pretty good at laughing at myself. You know, when the stakes are low. When things get stressful, though, and nobody else is...

Job training is no one's idea of a good time. All the uncertainty and awkwardness, the stupid mistakes, the overlooked details, the...

Funny thing about toast—when you smell it, you want it. Ever notice that? I mean, there was a time when I would sooner eat dirt than...

Squirrels get a bad rap. I know from experience—watching my family's ongoing bird-feeder vs. squirrel feud of feuds—but I can't help...

Now, I typically don't write my Thankful Thursday posts at eight o'clock on Thursday night, but when life hands you lemons and a busy...

Meet Dudley, Myrtle, and Rudy, the three happy snowmen mascots of this Thankful Thursday post. Technically, I should be studying for my...

I do not have a spontaneous bone in my body. I mean that in the most literal sense. I am not impulsive. I hate making decisions and...

In our effort to have a relationship with God, to know Him and His Son on an intimate, personal level, I think there is a pitfall we...

I've always known what it's like to have Someone in my life who would never let me down. You'd think after all this time I'd figure out...

I feel like I've spent way too much of my life watching the clock. Despite my early enthusiasm for it, I realized quickly as a...

Earlier this week, I blogged about the inevitable reality that life is pain, and that we have only two options in that regard: to suffer,...

As someone who is constantly on the hunt for clean fantasy, there's nothing quite like those "Eureka!" moments when I stumble on a gem....

Prayer works. Not always in the ways we expect, not always in the cookie-cutter outcomes we may look for, but God and His Holy Spirit are co

I must have been three, maybe four years old when I went with my grandparents to pick this adorable pup from its litter mates. Since that...

Despite the mountain of bookish research I could be doing at present, I'm taking a brief respite to enjoy this fine Thankful Thursday...