Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Bear with me here. I’m asking, from an academic perspective, if the election of Barack Obama will result in the death of hip-hop. My son’s reading class is studying the poetry of Langston Hughes. I was speaking to him about…
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They’re playing CHRISTMAS MUSIC already on two of my favorite stations! We have seven weeks until Christmas! What are they thinking? I want my Advent back! {… commence long tantrum, ending with me reprogramming my car stereo’s preset stations and…
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Massachusetts voted to decriminalize marijuana. (If someone is in possession of one ounce or less, s/he will have to pay a $100 fine, but it’s no longer a felony.) Someone on the radio finally explained why it passed now: because…
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To: GuardianAngelSupport@godgroups.heavenlyhost.el Subject: Make it stop! Make it stop! Guys, I need some serious help here. My charge got a CD player for her seventh birthday, and last night she picked up her mother’s copy of the Mary Poppins soundtrack….
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Via my Patient Husband: “T. has congestive heart failure, and will have to have open-heart surgery. This morning the news got even worse: he went to the hospital last night, and they found an infection in his heart. At best,…
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It’s been a fun year. Thank you everyone for coming around and staying around! After one year of writing a weblog, we have: 44,000 page views 1688 comments 436 posts approximately 35 people reading via syndacation an average of 200…
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I wrote something fantastically funny, scheduled it to post, and hit “publish.” About ten minutes later, I had second thoughts. Not because it wasn’t funny, or because it was too private, but because I suddenly had the thought, “I might…
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I love the search terms used to get to this weblog. Today’s gem: “misfit with seven angels.” And google knew to send the person here.
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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So, when the daily reading that arrives in my inbox in the morning happens to be exactly the same passage that I was thinking about last night in bed, do you think that means maybe I need to pay attention…
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