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February 2019

February 21, 2019

Thursday Thoughts

The First Thought Facebook reinstated Faith McDonnell’s account. Which is Fantastic, and thank heaven, and...

February 19, 2019

Camping In A Church

This is interesting, if vaguely depressing. For the world wanderer, collecting interesting places to stay,...

February 17, 2019

Why Would You Want To?

In my ongoing quest to come to the end of the internet, this week I...

February 13, 2019

Maybe Go Ahead And Put Some Hope In Date Night

Tomorrow, in case you live in a cave, is Valentine’s Day. I was going to...

February 05, 2019

Memes For Tuesday

In the midst of all the real news of the weekend, I came across this...

February 03, 2019

Before and After

I happened upon a stash of old black and white photographs a few years ago....

January 2019

January 31, 2019

When They Required A Song

I was briefly on the Ride Home with John and Kathy (40 min. mark) last...

January 24, 2019

Book Notes: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

I am heading into a super busy weekend, and ought to be already running around...

January 23, 2019

It’s A Dark Day In New York State

I wrote something fluffy and inconsequential yesterday, before the news broke that the New York...

January 11, 2019

Kon Mari and the Bee

The Bee has been reading my blog, apparently. Fifteen people tagged me with this gem,...

January 09, 2019

Sparkling Home Decorating Advice for 2019

[me surfing the internet] I have yet to take down my big fat Christmas tree....

January 08, 2019

Don’t Make Me Throw Away All My Stuff

So the push to declutter is on. I haven’t been watching Mari Kondo—I don’t feel...

January 02, 2019

If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry

On the first day of the new year I read this depressing piece about Gandhi,...

December 2018

December 30, 2018

Come to Church and See a Miracle

In an over-sugared haze I finally read that muddled piece in the Guardian about how...

December 20, 2018

We Can Certainly Be Friends

I have, as I said last week, been doggedly pursuing the goal of actually reading...

December 18, 2018

Cute Is Not The Word You Were Looking For

I’ve been saving up this charmingly terrible goop gem for a few days. I thought...

December 13, 2018

Book Notes: Faith Is Not Blind

On Monday one of my children declared, “I like to spend most of my time...

December 09, 2018

Grief and Hope

This is a beautiful and tragic piece that made the rounds a week or two...

December 05, 2018

It’s So Crazy It Just Might Work

Is it only Wednesday? But fear not. Twitter was kind to me during the night...

December 04, 2018

Tumblr’s New Ban Won’t Actually Make You Homeless

This is an excellent article—short and to the point—and an interesting contrast to this one,...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Advent, For Such A Time As This

I think I need to limp out and buy some vitamin D. It is snowing,...

November 27, 2018

Google Is Easier Than Jesus

Well, I survived Cyber Monday. And Black Friday. And that day you take to do...

November 20, 2018

What You Should Do When You Don’t Like The Christmas Music

Have valiantly swallowed down my annoyance at hearing Christmas music in every store I have...

November 04, 2018

Church is Better than Politics, that App, and the Time Change

It is really and truly November. You can know because we’ve had our hour “given”...

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 30, 2018

Try To Be A Help

A friend sent me this interesting piece over the weekend. It takes a whack at...

October 28, 2018

In A Week Of Terrible News

Well, there goes another bad and discouraging week in America. It’s hard to stop scrolling...

October 26, 2018

7 Takes To Having It All

Ah, the fake end of another long week. Why fake? Because there’s one more birthday...

October 25, 2018

Life Hack: Be Who You Are

[This cat does not care how you organize your life.] All the news is depressingly...

October 21, 2018

The Cruelty of Letting Go

This was making the rounds earlier—some young man in a flowery T-shirt leaning forward in...