Today I am so excited to introduce you to my friend Katie! I like to consider Katie my first “adult friend,” as she was the first friend I made after graduating college. She and I met at a sidewalk counseling training in May 2019 and quickly connected over the fact that we are both passionately pro-life. She and I have decided to start a pro-life book club segment of the Coffee With Kara podcast and you can be looking forward… Read more »

Written on 7/5/17 Dear God, I know you write each of us unique love stories, and that some of us will get married someday and some of us will be single forever. Thank You for the plans You have for us! I praise You because you are creative in how each of us looks different, have different personalities, and have different stories. God, if it is in Your will for my best friend to get married someday, I want to… Read more »

YOU GUYS MY BESTEST BEST FRIEND IS ENGAGED!!! I cannot believe it and am experiencing so many conflicting emotions. All of which I’ll probably record later in a blog post… because that’s how I roll lol! The second my BFF texted me that she and her man were looking at rings, I freaked out and cried because it hit me that this marks the end of an era. The next day, I got super excited and started looking for engagement… Read more »

As I write this, I have been teaching at home online for three weeks. My city issued a shelter-in-place mandate two weeks ago. My apartment isn’t terribly tiny, but when you’re constantly stuck in it, it starts to feel that way. The kinda cool thing about all of this is we’re all in this same boat in some shape or form. All of our lives are changing in some way during this time. I knew after a few days of… Read more »

I don’t know about you, but I love discovering new two-player board games. My roommate and I love playing board games together. Over the past year that we have lived together, we have slowly gone through my small game collection and played classics such as Clue and Sorry. This Christmas I received some new games that work well for two-players and I was so excited to try them out with my roommate! I wanted to write this post to share… Read more »

My best friend is Catholic. I’m Baptist. And I am so grateful that we are friends and have differing opinions about several things! Quick back story: Michaela and I met when we were 7. I became a Christian a few months after I met her. As we grew up, we occasionally discussed things relating to our faith. Stuff like the differences between priests and pastors, baptism, and “asking Jesus into our hearts” came up. I didn’t really understand the differences… Read more »

One of my best friends and I met at a piano recital rehearsal when we were about 13. We happened to be sitting by each other during the rehearsal and neither of us said a word to the other, hindered by our shyness. I thus thought she was stuck up and snobby. She thought the same of me. All because of our silence. Truth was, neither of us was stuck up. We were just shy.  My friend and I didn’t start… Read more »

Wait. What? I tightened my grip on the notebook paper and reread the sentence: “Then my parents told us that we were moving- to Bentonville, Arkansas.” No, no, no! I kept reading Michaela’s letter, feeling numb inside. After the fifth read through, the knowledge that my best friend would be moving hours away finally sunk in. I clutched her letter in my hand, laid down on my side, and started to sob. I couldn’t imagine my life without Michaela. I… Read more »

The following is a guest post by one of my dearest friends, Bonnie Last November, I decided that I desperately needed to take a break from social media. Most especially, I really needed a break from Instagram. I wouldn’t say goodbye to it forever, but just for enough time for me to get away from it mentally, literally and generally. Social media had become toxic to me. Whenever I think about last semester, I always think of Instagram as being… Read more »

On November 8, 2017, I deleted Instagram off my phone. I did this for many reasons, all of which can be found in the post 7 Reasons Why I Broke Up With Instagram. And let me tell you, going without Instagram was hard. Very hard. Well, at least it was at first. As the months passed, I grew more and more accustomed to life without the time-sucking app. I found myself not even missing it… most of the time. It… Read more »