My Own Thoughts

Author: Suzi

  • New Books Read

    This year I’ve re-read a lot of books. New books this year include: Merline Lovelace’s 3 book Samantha Spade Series Lily Harper Hart’s –The Hexorcist –Maddie Graves 15-book series –Harper Harlow 15-book series –Ivy Morgan 15-book series –Rowan Gray 9-book series Victoria Pade’s Baby Be Mine Ilona Andrews’ Sweep with Me Mackey Chandler’s All in…

  • Christianity across Generations

    From Barna: “few Christian Millennials today are willing to share their faith with others (and in fact think it’s wrong to do so)” “a big drop among Millennials, with just shy of two-thirds claiming Christianity (64%)” “self-identified Christians who attend church every month and say their faith is very important in their lives). Almost four…

  • Moved Websites

    DH moved a lot of websites for me. Some posts I moved myself because I wanted them. I haven’t finished those, so more may yet show up here. I’m very grateful for the support of an amazing husband.

  • 2012 Poetry Contest Winners

    We had quite a few submissions to the Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Contest. First place, with a $50 check to come, was awarded to “The Modern Condition” by Kaleigh Wyrick. Second place, with a $30 check to come, was awarded to “Remembering Ohio” by Erik Ringle. Third place, with a $20 check to come, was…

  • Officers and Sponsors 2012

    From left to right: Dr. Steven Moore, Heather Kregel, Katherine Handy, Kaleigh Wyrick, Juliana Kocsis, Lauren Tarnow, Dr. Suanna Davis

  • Fall 2012 Induction

    Sigma Tau Delta: Tau Epsilon has four new members this fall! We have never had a fall induction before, but having a fall induction allows folks graduating in December to still become part of Sigma Tau Delta. Two of our new members are graduating in December. These are pictures from the induction: Ashley Alexander, 2012-13…

  • Induction Spring 2014

    Thirteen members of Sigma Tau Delta, along with their families and friends, were in attendance at this year’s induction on March 29th in Chapel on the Hill. Erica Stallings, from the Abilene Chamber of Commerce, spoke on English after college and the importance of reading, writing, and grammar in the everyday work world. She encouraged…

  • 2014 Poetry Winners

    Based on the judgements of five judges, all published poets from the community who are unrelated to ACU, this year’s Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry Contest Winners are: 1st Place: Adrian Patenaude, “I Wonder” 2nd Place: Brett Butler, “Paths” 3rd Place: Nicole Nelson, “Regrets” 4th Place: Ariene Peveto, “Graphic” Although originally Sigma Tau Delta intended to…

  • Fall 2014 Short Fiction Contest Winners

    Sigma Tau Delta, Tau Epsilon’s Fall 2014 Short Fiction Contest winners were chosen by four long-time members of the Abilene Writer’s Guild. Thank you to these wonderful folks for reading all the submissions, ranking them, and providing critiques of the works. Flash Fiction 1st place: Lindsay Snyder for “239 Beech Street” 2nd place: Alikay Wood…

  • Spring 2015 Induction

  • 2015 Poetry Contest Winners

    For the Fall 2015 poetry contest, we have the following winners: 1st Jake Buller for “A cool, still night” 2nd Haley Remenar “Life (fabric)” and Stephanie Martin “Nomad” 3rd Adam Nettina “John Bannister Tabb” Honorary Mention Rochelle Dunbar for “For Papa, and My Indulgent Mangoes” Joshua Alexander for “Letters”

  • 2017 Induction

    Thank you to everyone who came to support our students. Sigma Tau Delta members, you rock!

  • 2017 Poetry Awards

    The Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Awards were held in the Brown Library Atrium on October 12 at 7:30 pm. Print outs were made of the poems submitted to the contest between September 11 and October 2. These were laid out on three large tables so that everyone could read them. In addition, pens and post-it…

  • Gruene: Black and White

    The Digital Academy, through the Adams Center and the Learning Studio, took faculty and staff to Gruene, Texas and spent the weekend helping them get the most out of their digital cameras. Since I had only used the SLR three times, and my husband’s camera only to take photos of him that he had set…

  • Gruene: Best of the Clay Festival

    Images I took in 2011 at the Fall retreat. I am moving them from a different blog. While you might expect that these pictures will be of the pottery at the Clay Festival, they are not so much. These are primarily the people I saw at the pottery show. I only actually looked at the…

  • Gruene: Dora the Photographer

    Images from a soon-to-be-defunct website. From Fall Break 2011. Dora has since retired. Dora G– W– is the Learning Studio librarian and an old friend, from when her husband and I were in graduate school together. She is incredibly photogenic and I had fun shooting her (photographically only) this last weekend. She was a good…

  • Gruene: Made Art

    Images from the fall of 2011 and posts I made on a different website back then… One thing I did while I was playing with iPhoto and learning to use it was that I “fixed” pictures which were just too uninteresting or weird by making them look more like a piece of graphic design (which…

  • Gruene: Corrugated Metal

    From a soon-to-be-defunct blog. Images taken Fall Break 2011. One of the things I like to do, have thought about doing, think is cool (or some such), is to do a series of shots that are all about the texture. I like the idea, but I have so far found that my ability to produce…

  • Gruene: Antique Store as Photo Op

    I am moving things from a soon-to-be-defunct blog. These images were from Fall 2011. I love to look at antiques. And the antique store in Gruene, on the corner of Gruene and Hunter, has some amazing collections. They don’t have any blue glass I don’t already own, which is good, but they do have some…

  • Blessings July 13-27

    Friday July 13 checked and answered email *This is a big deal because I have been avoiding email like the plague. DH says it is because of the trauma that came by email. Slept well. Walked dog. Got invited to a make-up class with friends. Saturday July 14 went to 2 new antique shops in…