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Hello world.

I’m a twenty-six year old follower of Jesus.

Everything else is just icing on the cake.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Contact: moriahjoy [at] gmail [dot] com

Occupations: legal assistant; college staff worker (i.e. I work almost two full time jobs, thus my ability to write is much less than I would desire)

Interests: following and loving Jesus, apologetics, philosophy, theology, nature, walking, people, communication, writing, ideas, creativity, reading, music, photos, dried cherries, dancing in the rain, writing argumentative papers, discourse, soccer, basketball, health food, well-used sarcasm, relationships, people, sunflowers, gerber daisies, wine, red roses, twinkle lights, candles, slightly green bananas, long walks, whole foods, coffee, tea, dark chocolate, music in all forms except country, great writing, blogs, laughing, euchre, parsing movies, coffee shops, woods, gerber daisies, margaritas, singing, dancing around my living room, laughing, goat cheese, sushi

Favorite movies: Pretty much anything action, When Harry Met Sally, About A Boy, Man On Fire, What About Bob?, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, The Man Without A Face, The Wedding Crashers, The Village, Meet Joe Black, Momento, The Buttercream Gang, Garden State, Signs, The Sixth Sense, To Kill A Mockingbird, Greencard, The Fugitive, The Shawshank Redemption, We Were Soliders, Hunt For the Red October, You’ve Got Mail, The Last Samurai, Good Will Hunting, The Departed, all the DieHard movies, West Side Story, Munich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Conspiracy Theory, The Minority Report, A Patch of Blue, The Sound of Music, The Manchurian Candidate, any movie with Denzel Washington, Fight Club

Favorite books: Mere Christianity, The Pursuit of God, Bringing Up Boys, Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, the Betsy-Tacy series, anything by Mark Twain, George MacDonald, James Herriot’s books, The Girl of the Limberlost, Bible, Calvin and Hobbes, Julie, Run Baby Run, The Hiding Place, The Great Divorce, Sacred Marriage, Screwtape Letters, Sacred Marriage, The Cross and the Switchblade, The Four Loves, A Grief Observed, 1984, Searching for God Knows What, Blue Like Jazz, The Barbarian Way, Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe and too many more.

Favorite music: U2, Regina Spektor, Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, Madison Greene, Over The Rhine, Alanis Morrissette, Natalie Merchant, Eve Six, Eels, Vertical Horizon, Nickleback, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Stevie Wonder, Eva Cassidy, Barenaked Ladies, POD, Shawn MacDonald, Watermark, The Afters, Howie Day, Jan Krist, Coldplay, Smashing Pumpkins, Sister Hazel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Frou Frou, Our Lady Peace, Van Morrison, Tori Amos, Guster, Lifehouse, Dishwalla, No Doubt, Maroon Five, Everclear, Three Doors Down, Royksopp, Cranberries, Live, The Verve Pipe, Greenday, David Gray, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Spin Doctors, Peter Gabriel, Simon & Garfunkle, Oasis, The Fray, Coldplay, Carole King, Sam Phillips, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Beck, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Over the Rhine, Motown, musicals of all kinds, Shawn McDonald, Bebo Norman, Casting Crowns, According to John, Jars of Clay, Chopin, The Beatles, Audioslave, Okay Go, Nellie Furtado, Building 429, The Afters, India Arie