Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Goal-setting for a hockey player is easy: “Get the puck into the net.” Goals are especially important for writers because we don’t otherwise have a means to judge our performance. In setting goals, however, we must be careful to make…
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Ivy points out every so often that in Judaism, Satan is not hateful but rather another righteous servant of the Almighty, only one charged with testing God’s people. It’s a job along with any other, kind of like an undercover…
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On December 27th, two entire days after Christmas, I went grocery shopping. Can you believe there were no Valentine’s Day cards out yet? Our retail outlets are failing us. What will become of those who did all their Christmas shopping…
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I felt like I messed up every gift I was giving to my Patient Husband this Christmas. Three weeks ago, the print I’d ordered him off ebay arrived several shades darker than it had appeared online. The seller apologized and…
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The weblog tour is back! Long live the weblog tour! The new topic is a holiday memory. So let’s travel back in time to my days as a Neophyte Philangelus. By this time I’d been talking to my guardian angel…
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About two years ago, I was dwelling on the nativity when it occurred to me how good newborns smell. Ask on a parenting board what the best part of holding a newborn is, and half the moms will tell you,…
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At the dinner table, Kiddo#2 said, “I don’t think there’s really a Santa.” She laughed nervously. “I think it’s Mom and Dad!” This was a month ago. I looked at her, puzzled, and said, “Huh?” She said, “I think you…
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I was looking for something with a flashlight when Kiddo#3 said to me, “Remember when we celebrated Hanukkah or Kwanzaa?” I admitted I remembered neither of those things. Because, as it turns out, we have never celebrated Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. …
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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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Over at Conversion Diary, this jumped out at me: “Man lives on truth and on being loved: on being loved by the truth.” This seemingly simple passage gave me a real jolt. It came from the fact that it immediately changed my perspective…
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