Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
If you frequent the comment box, you’re familiar with Ken Rolph, our resident Australian (actually, he’s residing in Australia and we all gather wherever via the magic of the internet.) He posted this to a forum we both belong to,…
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Sorry I posted such a sad story yesterday. Let me tell you a less-sad story so maybe you’ll keep coming back. This woman’s name I don’t remember, but my dispatcher said I’d be bringing her to “the meeting of the…
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“I’ll be your driver today, Mrs. Penn,” I said when she answered the door, this tiny white-haired woman with a nasty dog at her heels. She grinned and said, “It’s Miss, not Missus, and you can call me Shirlee.” She’d…
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She arrived in our house after we’d been married a few months, part mistake and part fate the way good things always are. We had seen teeny-tiny kittens in the pet store, so I went to the animal shelter to…
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I have a question: Did Jesus like people to follow the rules? Jesus said that not one jot of the law would pass away, and he certainly followed the rules himself (see the bit about paying the Temple tax) but…
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I actually stopped on my bike ride and did a U-turn to get this photo. In between us we have a rock wall and a horse pasture, but there is is, one lone tree changed so much that it stands…
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Back when I had Kiddo1, my mother told me not to try being a perfect mother, but instead to be a good-enough mother. Since there are no perfect mothers, you’d pretty much kill yourself trying to live up to the…
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About a week ago I came across the story of an aspiring rapper who died in a fatal car crash. The driver was drunk. What made his story all the worse was that right before he died, the guy had…
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I woke in the middle of the night with a realization about humility. Humility in America gets a bum rap because we’re more used to “false humility.” You: You’re so beautiful! Beautiful Person: Oh, no, I’m terribly ugly. False humility isn’t…
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Last week en route to the grocery store, I had a terrific story idea. In the parking lot, I scrawled some notes on the back of the closest available paper, a gas receipt, and shopped without fear of forgetting. (Normally…
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