Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Meg, from one of my parenting forums, redacted this from the FDA’s letter about the Tylenol, Benedryl, Motrin and Zyrtec recall. This is long but please read all the way through so you can understand why many parents are outraged…
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Angelborough looks vaguely obscene these days. We’re voting on a new library, and everyone has an opinion. That is to say, everyone has an opinion that we need a new library, as the current library is smaller than my house,…
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One of my online writing groups asked what advice we’d give to the next generation of writers. I supplied this: Learn to think others’ thoughts. Learn to put them on and take them off again. This develops compassion. But more…
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The Palm Sunday gospel reading was the Luke passion, and it occurred to me how efficient they were. I’m an American, so I’m insulated. I admit this. My middle-class American reality consists of things like a high speed internet connection…
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Healthcare / health insurance in the US is so disordered right now that no matter what they do in Washington, it’s not going to help, and my Patient Husband pointed out why. (To be fair, he said he read this…
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My Patient Husband and I somehow discussed the “typical” 50s-era home with the hard-working husband, the dutiful housewife, the clean and sparkling children. We’re failing on two of those three counts. I said something about him being the lord of…
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On Saturday morning, I said to my Patient Husband, “If Michael Jackson faked his own death, that would be the ultimate publicity stunt.” We’d been talking about how he’d been perfectly positioned in the early 1980s to become a mega-star,…
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This is a repost from September 11th, when I found and photographed a local war memorial. I pray for the souls of our veterans and all those who have lost loved ones to war. — I thought I’d seen it…
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In response to the flyover of New York City, which was reportedly a photo op and an attempt to update photos of Air Force One near the Statue of Liberty, I have one word for you: Photoshop. Any one of…
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Connecticut is voting this Wednesday on explicitly anti-Catholic legislation to incorporate Catholic parishes. News story is here: http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11868032 If passed, this legislation will mandate that the governance of all Catholic churches be done by a third party committee and the…
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