Fish Tanks

You know that feeling when you go back to a place you spent a lot of time as a kid? Like your elementary school or a playground or a childhood home, and when you walk in you immediately think “wow, I remember it being a lot bigger”? I had that feeling recently. I used to …

Back in the Gym

The other day Gannon and I had a day off so we went to play basketball together at the Colvin. Usually, when we play basketball I'm basically like a miniature female Lebron James. But this day was definitely not one of my better days. I kept missing and missing and missing. Gannon made a joke …

In the Meadow

Gannon and I hadn't been dating for very long when he first told me what his name meant. He said that when his mom was pregnant, God would give her an image of her kids to pray over them, and for Gannon, it was a sweet meadow. A meadow that the sick and the hurt …

We Already Have It

Here are some things I support: strong women and gender equality and freedom - women who can run fast and strong and are not held back. Women who are poised to do mighty things.    Here is some good news: I don't have to make signs or go on marches or call our legislators to …

The Six Things I’ve Learned in Six Months of Marriage

You know when you first get married and you literally can't walk more than four steps without someone stopping you and asking "How's married life?!". I always thought that question was funny because they know you're going to say you love it. Imagine how awkward it would be if you didn't. Like, even if we …

Simplifying Christmas (by Jalene Depperschmidt)

I love Christmas, I really do, but I've been on a journey the past few years that I would call "simplifying Christmas." I started asking myself " If Christmas is about celebrating Christ's birth what traditions and activities support that celebration and what needs to go? It's been liberating really to reconsider what was a …

Thrive

Every year I pray for God to speak a word to me that I can spend the next 12 months focusing on. This year, I chose the word thrive. One night, shortly after I chose this to be my word, I had a prophetic dream. In my dream I was a flower. I was growing …

Some of Our Story

Gannon and I get married in less than one week and I've spent a lot of time recently wallowing in my nostalgia, thinking back to when and where it all began and how much we both have changed since then. We have a really good love story, Gannon and I. One of the best, I …

7-26-2017

Yesterday Gannon Reese, the man of my dreams, proposed to me. And I know a lot of you are probably wondering why an eighteen year old girl would think it was a good idea to settle down and get married before the ink could even dry on her high school diploma, right? Yet, as life …

My sunflower tat actually means something

  So, if you know me at all, you know that sunflowers are just kind of my thing. I've kind of adopted them as my trademark over the course of my life, and I realized recently that I haven't actually told many people the reason why. But I got one tattooed on my arm for …