In April 2016, my first college roommate got engaged. The day after her boyfriend proposed, she woke up super cheerful and peppy, as I’m sure you can imagine. :) When I returned to our apartment after my 8 am class that morning, she hugged me and squealed, “I’m engaged! I’m ENGAGED! He and I are getting married!!” I loved watching my friend be on cloud nine throughout her engagement and especially as she and her husband said “I do” a… Read more »
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 »
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 lived with a total of four different girls throughout my college career and was blessed to have an awesome living situation every time. However, I know that not everyone is as lucky as me and have to face tough roommate situations. My final college roommate, Bonnie, has had some, well, hard-living situations and so I asked if she’d be willing to write about her hard roommates and share any advice she has learned with you. So this post is… Read more »
Have you ever faced peer pressure to get a boyfriend? I sure have… It was the spring semester of my freshman year of college. My (then) roommate had been happily dating her boyfriend (now husband) for about 2.5 months. And like any friend who was falling in love, she wanted me to be happily in a relationship as well. One of my guy friends and I were mutually “in like,” and we both knew that someday we would probably date…. Read more »
Sometimes as singles we like to exaggerate our situation in our heads, thinking things like “EVERYONE is dating but me!!” even if we know that isn’t true. But when all of your closest friends are in dating relationships, and you’re not? It’s a tricky situation. You want to be genuinely happy for your friends- and so often you are. But, there is the occasional drop of jealousy that stirs in your heart, tempting you towards discontentment. My two best friends are currently dating someone… Read more »
