“Plushageddon” begins with a Gund Snuffles
I was en route to preschool pickup when I saw it in a pile of stuff marked FREE. A Gund Snuffles. I’d know that face anywhere. I actually stopped the car in the middle of the road, but then I…
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Monthly Archive: October 2011
New date for the end of the world!
Harold Camping’s second date for the end of the world has passed and we’re all still here. I’m used to this by now. I grew up with yearly predictions about God’s wrath coming in various horrible ways, and when I…
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even the stereotypes
Now in an utterly different level of serious, we have a conversation between me and Kiddo#3 about stereotyping. Kiddo#3 likes the Hot Chelle Rae song “Tonight Tonight.” If you haven’t heard it, imagine a party song filled with every musical…
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Teaching children about hatred
I cannot remember how it came up. Maybe Kiddo#2 asked me what Nazis were. Maybe she wanted to know why countries just didn’t decide to have peace. She’s in fifth grade. By the time I was in fifth grade, we’d…
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The difference a decade makes
The Moody Blues’ “Nights In White Satin” has a line that says “Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.” I find that both empowering and frightening, taken in the context of eternity, of free will….
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Those cunning matchmakers
Kiddo#4 has discovered “leftovers.” I’m not sure why, but we’ve had several variants of this conversation: Kiddo#4: Is there any leftovers? Me: Um, I think so. Yeah, here are some green beans. Kiddo#4: YAY! And then he sits down and…
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Bike rides and bullet points
With Kiddo#4 in school, I am now blessed with two whole hours to myself four days a week. Just think about that for a minute. Relish that. Two hours a day when I’m not concerned about whether someone’s sticking crayons…
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Dear Sir: So glad you thought that was funny.
If you were the man in the row in front of us at church this morning, with your shoulders shaking and tears streaming down your face as you tried not to bust up laughing during the Sign of Peace… …yes,…
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Won’t you be my neighbor?
Our parish priest is in the hospital and could use some prayers, and in the meantime we’ve got a “loaner priest” from somewhere else taking the daily Masses. He’s got some interesting insights, and I wanted to share one. (Actually,…
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Hello, visitors
I noticed I’m getting visitors from Happy Catholic in the wake of the Feast of Guardian Angels. Welcome! If you’re looking for my angel posts, here are a few: My guardian angel’s favorite place How my guardian angel got his…
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