Welcome. Of all the blogs in all the towns in all the cyber-world, you walked into mine...and I couldn't be happier. If we haven't met, my name is Carolyn. I am a singer/songwriter, author, speaker, college instructor, graduate student, wife, mother and slightly distracted driver. (I'm working on the driver part. Road safety is important.) I live in Surrey, BC with my husband Mark and our two kids, Ben and Beth.
I love ideas and language (and chocolate). I'm convinced that the Kingdom of Heaven is near, and I'm rather preoccupied with figuring out all the things that might mean. This is where I blog, and where, I hope, we get to know each other. Thanks for being here. [ MORE ]
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My webmaster and friend Rose recently reminded me that back in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, we created a reflection site at carolynarends.com in an effort to offer a place for our little community to try to process what had happened. Reading now the writings that we posted back then, I'm struck by the solidarity I felt with my American neighbors. And I can't help noticing how shocked we all felt that we, as North Americans, could be so vulnerable--a reality we've grown more accustomed to, I think, over the intervening years.