Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Dear Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the proud makers of Kleenex: Imagine my confusion when reading on the bottom of my Kleenex box the following: ‘Your nose knows you care for it. After all, you use Kleenex tissue!’ Perplexed, I went to the…
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Way back when, I said one of the best parts of having a newborn is the smell, and mentioned how Mary must have inhaled that perfect scent of Jesus as a newborn. The second best part of newborn cuddles is…
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There’s a hurt kitty in our back yard, and I’m trying to catch her. A few months ago, as we were going to church, we saw a stray in the brambles between our property and the next. We wanted to…
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Having majored in English, I’ve encountered a lot of the “standards” books, plus a lot of books that made me wonder why they were on the reading list at all. What makes a good book? Well, we’ve talked about that…
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At about 10:15 I awoke from a half-sleep to hear Kiddo#3 calling for me. Wailing, really. I went into his room and flipped on the lights to find him not-awake-not-asleep. I was cold, so I didn’t think much of it…
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Dear Over-21 Residents of Angelborough: I’m thrilled and delighted to see how environmentally conscious you are. After spending five years in Ithaca, NY, where they invented being “green” and where Al Gore would find himself on the conservative side of…
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A new publication! Over at New Christian Voices, my humor piece Bread And Beauty is posted. It’s a short essay I wrote in response to a corporate magazine touting how I could save time by giving them gobs of money for…
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I’ve mentioned before that God often uses us to minister to one another. Sure, God could keep all our interaction focused solely on Him (vertical interaction) but humans are basically social creatures, and it’s also in His plan that we…
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I’ve mentioned that ♥My New Book♥ is about a string quartet. I’ve been reading up on violins and listening to a course on chamber music so I can actually talk about things with some clarity. I’m plotting and researching and writing…
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All over the web people use icons to define themselves on forums. Most places, that’s the only way others know us. I begin to think of regulars on certain forums as looking exactly like their icons and it’s a shock…
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