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July 2022

July 22, 2022

Some Reasons To Go Camping

It's Friday! In case you hadn't noticed. I'm going to redeem my failure to blog...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

The First Hundred Years

My grandfather went home to be with the Lord sometime in the night between Saturday...

February 2021

February 03, 2021

That’s Not Very Nice

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

December 2020

December 15, 2020

I Wish I Had That Kind Of Time

This is a long and sort of interesting article about efforts to recover what the...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

How You Can Help

This is the house where I spent my late childhood and teen years in Mali,...

October 18, 2020

Heart-rendering

I'm over at Stand Firm this morning. Early Friday morning my parents packed up their...

July 2020

July 23, 2020

Take the Hammer Away: News Items of Note

As usual, I should be doing other things besides wandering around the internet. But before...

June 2020

June 05, 2020

7 Steps Away From Contempt

Well, this has been quite the week. Let me see if I can find some...

March 2020

March 04, 2020

Millennial Pink and a “Churchy” Aesthetic

Someone in my house appears to be hacking up a lung. Not sure what that...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

A Lot of Things Should be Harder to Do

This is actually a brilliant invention. One of the best. In the spirit of Thanksgiving,...

November 07, 2019

Three Things on Thursday

Me getting ready for 2020. The First Thing John Crist has cancelled the rest of...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Kanye West , Big Eva, and the Iceberg of Christianity

Have been resisting jumping on the Kanye West train for at least a week, but...

October 04, 2019

7 But Have You Tried Eating All The Babies Takes

Well, this seems like it’s been a long week, how ‘bout some takes. One This...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

And God Saw That It Was Good But I Was Too Busy To Pay Attention

I’ve been pushing myself along at an insane pace the last month...well, maybe six weeks,...

September 12, 2019

Books on Thursday: Strangers, Dentists, and Writing Envy

Me trying to read literally anything. And boy does she have a lot of teeth....

June 2019

June 13, 2019

Sound Track Of My Work Life

I’ve been studiously drowning out the sounds of my family for the last year with...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

3 Things on Thursday

The First Thing I love the pictures in this piece, short as it is. The...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

The Stranger, Christ

The Sundays in Lent don’t really count as Lent, which is a good thing because,...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

Facebook Enacts Their Community Standards

Whatever it was I was thinking about yesterday evaporated when I happened on this news,...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

Trying to Greet my Neighbor

There’s the November rain. It held off through the last dying gasps of October, to...

October 2018

October 16, 2018

Macron Frenchsplains Africa

Tuesday is the new Monday, even though Monday is the real Monday. It’s like having...

October 05, 2018

7 Peace Takes

Well, Friday, there you are. One Caught up for the last half hour watching a...

July 2018

July 21, 2018

Notes From Home: The Hidden Costs of Self-Definition

Found this article to be most interesting. Didn’t know there was something called the New...

July 03, 2018

How to Treat a Cold

The full force of winter—gray skies, occasional rain, temperatures of fifty to sixty degrees—is bearing...

July 02, 2018

Death Is Probably Lurking

By rights I should have a lovely scintillating podcast and a whole lot of links...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

I Will Never Be Hungry Again

Is it the end of June already? Which means the year is half over. I’m...

June 29, 2018

7 Sugar Takes

One We are nearing the end of a whirlwind week. Daily visits to the school,...

June 27, 2018

A Time For School

This week will be one long apology for not blogging very much. But first things...

June 25, 2018

God’s Country

Greetings from Nairobi. Jambo Sana, etc. I am sitting huddled next to a large bubbling...

June 15, 2018

7 Quick Takes To Zion

[Gladys, 10 years ago, in the Garden of Gethsemane] Except, I hope not to go...