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April 2021

April 09, 2021

7 Takes In All Directions

All my Easter Flowers gathered on the kitchen counter. I wasn't going to blog today...

April 01, 2021

Three Things on Maundy Thursday

Me thinking about moderating the comments on my blog. The First Thing Happy April Fool's...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Ten Things that Literally Happened

In my sojourning through Holy Week, I really like this tweet: The tweeter, who is...

March 30, 2021

The Irony of the Blood

I could never have prophisied that the thing rattling around at the back of the...

March 26, 2021

7 Takes of Unhappiness

One Last Selfie With A Good And Faithful Dog One I did not intend to...

March 16, 2021

You Know Neither The Scriptures Nor The Power Of God

I enjoy Helen Pluckrose on Twitter, and have been slowly going through Cynical Theories, but...

March 11, 2021

An Exercise In Lament

As usual, it's so hard to know in what direction to wander this morning. I stayed...

March 09, 2021

A Braver, More Stunning Space

Jesus scrolling around TicToc watching people pontificate about how racist he is. I haven’t watched...

March 05, 2021

7 Irritable Links

Is it really Friday? PTL. This has been a weirdly busy week for me and...

March 04, 2021

All Those Algorithms

I was pretty amused to find Amazon--yet again--recommending my own book to me. This happens...

March 03, 2021

Three Ways Not To Cancel A Book

Well, I wasn't paying attention very well yesterday and didn't really grasp the shock and...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

You Only Die Once

I've been working on an article for the last month or so--You Only Die Once:...

February 19, 2021

7 Women Are Not The Problem Takes

Well, it's finally the end of a long, terrible week. Let's see what we have....

February 18, 2021

More Death for Lent

I can't really blog today. I posted this prayer request at the end of my...

February 17, 2021

Lent Adjacent

Jesus asking himself what I'm going to give up this year. Here we are again,...

February 11, 2021

We Can’t Do Hard Things Because We Don’t Want To

I thought I was going to post a video today with more of my #thoughtsandprayers...

February 10, 2021

Wandering Around That Howling Wilderness

Well, we just got through another birthday successfully. Bit of a break now until April--of...

February 04, 2021

Money for Books

Me thinking about how I will collect Grace Livingston Hill books in the future. Well,...

February 03, 2021

That’s Not Very Nice

In the interest of grievance-mongering, which I feel I might as well try out because...

February 02, 2021

For My Eyes Have Seen

Three things have I loved, but two I'm pretty sure merit a full link here--in...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

7 Takes on Identity Mostly

Well, it is Friday, and it sure is cold out there, and getting colder, so...

January 28, 2021

Happiness and Bernie

Me thinking about all the constraints on my time and my person. As usual, I...

January 27, 2021

Blogging, Gloria the Cat, and What to do About All the Unhappiness

It was not my intention to take two whole days off of blogging. Several bad...

January 22, 2021

I Know It’s Disappointing, But You Do Have To Read It

Is it really Friday? And the sky is threatening snow, so that's something. For reasons...

January 21, 2021

Who Brings Princes To Nothing

This is really super long and interesting--well, the first half is good but then it...

January 20, 2021

Nothing to Blog About

Latest Picture By Clever Child, Used By Permission That's actually not true. There's a ton...

January 19, 2021

The Law of Date Night

I have been meaning to blog about this for ages, and so today is the...

January 14, 2021

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Well, this is interesting. The New Apostolic Reformation end of the church-going spectrum appears to...

January 13, 2021

Where Would I Even Go?

Me at home looking at my beautiful purses and then putting them away again. I...

January 12, 2021

Is Christian Evangelism Wicked?

In all the swirl of bad news and uncertainty about the future, here is something...