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November 2016

November 07, 2016

Election Week Podcast and Links

[Picture of Jesus freaked out about tomorrow just like you are.] Thanks to the time...

November 06, 2016

Is There a Point to Being a Christian?

It's that auspicious time of year. The air is cold and crisp, the mums are...

November 05, 2016

Autumn Notes on Home and Daylight Savings

I have got to plant out some bulbs today, even though it's probably late. I've...

November 04, 2016

7 Women with Amazing Hair

2016 has been kind of a drag, as almost every year ends up being in...

November 03, 2016

The Curse of the Goat for All of America

Trying to understand this goat curse. Had never heard of it before this week. Even...

November 02, 2016

You Can’t Have It All

Every so often I take a break from the various political podcasts I fill my...

November 01, 2016

Keep the Wretched Feast

Today begins the short quick march to Advent and the beginning of a new church...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Reformation Day Podcast and Links

We've climbed back on the bus of our usual routine and done up a little...

October 30, 2016

Stop Sexting and Get Wisdom

One of the best ways to be happy, I have found, is to sometimes meditate...

October 29, 2016

Putting the Happy back into Warrior

Somebody on Facebook yesterday tried to tone police my mean and snarky post about that...

October 28, 2016

Hatmaker, Halloween, and a Reforming Cure

It's Friday! And you know what that means! It means another birthday tea. Two little...

October 27, 2016

Snarky, It’s Who I Am It’s Who I Am

[Update, I have been variously corrected today that Mr. Tomlin did not write this song....

October 26, 2016

A Unified Theory of What’s Wrong with Everything

Last week, among the many links that I was busy gathering to no effect or...

October 25, 2016

The Second Verse is Not Exactly the Same as the First

Well, you might have noticed the great tragedy of there being no podcast and links...

October 23, 2016

When You Are Weak Go To Church

I've written before about how Saturday nights are often a great trial. This isn't something...

October 22, 2016

Autumnal Notes

For a while now that I've looked out my bedroom window it's been what I...

October 21, 2016

7 Stupid Things for Friday

Oh ah, here we are at the end of another long week. Today, dammit, we're...

October 20, 2016

Trump Mansplains Hillary

Second Verse same as the First....sorry, I've been wanting to say that for three whole...

October 19, 2016

Here, Let me Solve the Loneliness Problem

Well. This is alarming. Utterly depressed myself on Twitter for ten minutes only to end...

October 18, 2016

Perfection, Anger, and the Cover of my Book

"Boy," I said to a friend yesterday evening, "I botched the glorious reveal of my...

October 17, 2016

Why Yes, She is Holding a Sharp Implement

Good Moaning. Trying to move myself along through the day. And that means doing everything...

October 16, 2016

Choose Sorrow over Happiness

Just toiled through this article--the world's happiest man, dug up by someone desperate for happiness,...

October 15, 2016

Birthday Notes

I think we ended up with a very successful tea party. Realized, as I was...

October 14, 2016

7 Autumnal Takes in which I Fuss over the Passing of Time

It's been a long week. Time for some Quick Takes. One I read this excellent...

October 13, 2016

What’s Wrong with Focus on the Family

One of my children, can't remember which one, rightly observed yesterday that every conversation we...

October 12, 2016

Just Read It

I came across this brilliant article yesterday which confirms all my personal feelings and suspicions...

October 11, 2016

One Easy Simple Way To Become Perfectly Happy

This is a really great article, even if it happens to be at Vox. You...

October 10, 2016

Podcast, Links, Hilarity

Trying to drag myself into the day after being up way too late watching the...

October 09, 2016

Joy for the Donald, Hillary, and Kim K

It was hard to let go of Twitter last night and allow the world roil...

October 08, 2016

Trump: An Icon of the Western Soul

I am going to postpone my much more interesting Kitchen/House Notes Saturday Diversion to say...

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