The New Year is upon me. I don’t know what it is about us humans that we place such significance in these milestones. A New Year’s Resolution! Some magical threshold is crossed and now, because I put a 2012 on my checks instead of a 2011, suddenly I have a previously unrealized capability to complete [...]
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Dandelion Break
Posted: December 14, 2007 in Christianity, Random Observations, Random Thoughts, UnbloggingYou remember the Bloom County cartoons, where Opus would occasionally need to take a break from everything and sit amidst the dandelions for a while? I feel like a I need one of those. What with all the shootings and crazy weather and the painful mediocrity of the candidates currently in the race for President, [...]
The case of Chicken v. Egg
Posted: July 31, 2007 in Christianity, Evolution, Parenting, Random ThoughtsUnderstanding that my readers come here for definitive answers on many of life’s issues, (well, that and pictures of Jennifer Lopez, of which I’ve posted only one, but still seem to get a lot of traffic from the search engines, but I digress) I offer you here the once and forever answer to that eternal question, “Which came first: [...]
Apropos of nothing
Posted: July 19, 2007 in Blitherings, Nearly News, Nut Jobs, Random Observations, Random Thoughts, Rants, UnbloggingSomewhere along the line I picked up “The Wink.” You know, that slight twitch of an eye (mine happens to be the left) when you are passing someone you know in the hallway, and on some subconscious level, a mere “Hey!” doesn’t seem quite sufficient. So you maybe add in a subtle head nod, and [...]
I can remember her so clearly now, though in every real sense, I never really knew her at all. She was the one who stood beside me as I crested a mountain top and, for a moment, lost my breath at the incredible majesty unfolding before me. She leaned into me, her arm entwined in [...]