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About Me

visit my online studio @ emilychristensenstudio.com

My Interests

Dancing - to anything that's got a beat. Learning languages...Arabic, French, some Spanish. Worshiping my Creator and Redeemer. Traveling...Morocco, West Bank and Israel, maybe Mongolia next year?? Cookin up wholesome organics for my fam. Painting, throwing pottery, drawing, making things beautiful. Arabic and Celtic artwork and architecture.

I'd like to meet:

People who are interested in living life rather than consuming it.

Music:

Funk, Indie, Worship, Rai, International, piano... anything that sounds good with the likes of U2, Linferd Detweiler (or Over the Rhine), Sufjan Stevens, Simon Mayor, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Five Iron Frenzy, Andrea Bocelli, Pink Martini, Go Hirano

Movies:

Kingdom of Heaven, Napoleon Dynamite, Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings, A Christmas Story, Like Water for Chocolate, Amelie, Waking Ned Devine, Babette's Feast, Matrix Trilogy, Magnolia

Television:

nada

Books:

I am an obsessive reader of non-fiction and a compulsive buyer of anything with good illustrations. Current favorites: Ending Poverty in Our Time (Sachs), Eat Right 4 Your Type (D'Adamo), the Enneagram (Rohr), Affluenza: the All Consuming Epidemic (Simon), the Crusades through Arab Eyes (Maalouf), the Three Pigs (Wiesner), Harry Potter series, Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas

Heroes:

My husband, who rides his bike to work everyday, even in Holland's sleet and snow. Those who have survived and are surviving genocide and war. Elie Wiesel. Ben Patterson. Kamal Boullata. Michael Carroll.

My Blog

diapers

So for the third kid, we're trying to do the no-diaper-method. In some respects, it works remarkably well, definitely way better than using cloth diapers and having to swish and flush ...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:00 PST

OY! that hurt

hurray for a patient midwife, ultra-kind nurses, a massaging mother-in-law, an incredible husband, and a gentle baby girl! (but it still hurt like hell). Greta Mae was born Jan 2 (only 2 d...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:04:00 PST

Still

why am I still pregnant?
Posted by Emily on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:18:00 PST

seed conspiracy

I've just spent a month agonizing over the growth of seedlings for my garden. I finally planted most of them, in a big plot down the road, where the weeds are obviously much healthier than they ...
Posted by Emily on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:33:00 PST

romance in the air

Pete, while brushing his teeth, leans over tonight and sniffs me at shoulder level. "Good or bad?" I ask. With a puzzled look, he says, "I just got a whiff of a ruben sandwich." "Is ...
Posted by Emily on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:29:00 PST

It's beginning to look a lot like grinchmas

Be gone, you mucus-causing, creme de la creme Christmas goodies! Be gone, you China-made trinkets, all sprinkly twinkling and bright!The paper so lovingly chosen, cut, and taped by grandpare...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:05:00 PST

Life as a musical

An old friend once commented that he wished he could live in a musical. What an amazing prospect, and now, after having kids and spending much of my day orchestrating our lives and household and...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:59:00 PST

Mine is more yummery

Leif's quote of the week, after tasting my ice-cream and enthusiastically comparing it to his own: "mmm, it's good. But mine is more yummery." Philosophically speaking, I think he's ...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:05:00 PST

Sink or Swim article

a timely article from Sojourners' David Batstone (what a great name, huh) Sink or Swim by David Batstone The debate raging over the health of the U.S. economy is colored, not surprisingly, with ideol...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:17:00 PST

little heads like monkeys

"Vacation" number three at Beaver Island Every year we think: oh the kids are older...it won't be as terrible as last year. But I think this island must have some issue with Peter's family. ...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:17:00 PST