Be wrong!
I love this comic: About a year ago, Ivy asked me how to get more comments on her weblog. I replied, “Be wrong.” She laughed, but it’s been my experience that the fastest way to get comments on this weblog…
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pensive
a line was crossed
Last night, my Patient Husband reviewed the blog post scheduled to go up today and agreed with my sense that I’d crossed the line from “uproariously funny” into “offensive,” so I made the decision not to post it. I’m very…
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The media fast
Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson, recently blogged about his self-imposed media fast. I’d been following him on Twitter while he decided about it, and the fact that he decided to take the plunge after I encouraged him to do…
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Changing communication and learning
The internet has changed how people learn. I’ve been realizing that lately as I read about marketing, branding, and how to make people want your product. One article stated flat-out, “You cannot run a successful weblog and not have your…
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Disturbing, and not
Someone passed along a link stating that girls manifest Asperger’s syndrome differently than boys do. This may in part account for the ten to one ratio of boys to girls who are diagnosed with it. I’m interested because I have…
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Jesus, inconvenienced
Ivy made me laugh when she referred to Jesus as submitting to death, then added in a parenthetical, “Well, inconvenience, really.” As a Christian, I admit that confuses me too. Assuming Jesus knew in advance he’d “come out the other…
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Was I born cynical?
Now that the election is over, this can post. (But I’m writing it the day before. I love the “post me later” feature.) I read over the summer about a woman at a corner store in a major US city….
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vines
Yesterday I talked about clearing brush and making a fire. Today let’s talk about what I cleared, because it wasn’t just brush. I didn’t realize trees could get covered with vines. Someone called them “bittersweet” but I can’t imagine that’s…
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on “going autumn”
Out in the yard, I found a self-planting maple weed. It’s a maple tree growing where I’m never going to let a maple grow. Usually I pull them without a second thought. This one caught me by surprise, however, because…
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Wasp
He’s in my house, and he’s dying. For the last two days, he’s been here, my uninvited guest about an inch long and shiny black. He’s slow, and he’s looking for a place to rest. Somehow, he got trapped inside,…
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