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April 2015

April 22, 2015

Shared Core Experience

Have been rather in need of a new dining room table these past many months....

April 17, 2015

Children and Freedom

Been thinking about the Free Range Kid debate percolating all over the Internet and the...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

It’s Not Your Boat

Matt, who wakes up much earlier than I, sent me this nice article to catapult...

March 19, 2015

We Might be Sorely Hindered by our Bodies

So last week I ran across this very popular post on what looks to be...

March 17, 2015

I am a tiny bit Irish, probably.

So I slept late, thinking it was still night when I finally pried my eyes...

March 10, 2015

Tapas Tuesday

Stupid Time Change. So much of the order of life depends upon waking up at...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

A Holy Lent

Don't worry, I haven't given up blogging for Lent. I'm just in a fog of...

February 06, 2015

Shifts and Changes: part four, the growing of children

I said yesterday that Motherhood is discovering every day the capacity to do more work,...

February 06, 2015

Shifts and Changes: part four, the growing of children

I said yesterday that Motherhood is discovering every day the capacity to do more work,...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

#prayaboutitalready

I don't like to get into politics here much, or at all. I don't think...

January 09, 2015

7 Good Things About Binghamton

It is snowing, and you all know how I love snow, and is bitterly cold,...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

Keeping Christmas

I happened to read a very interesting article floating around facebook last week about the...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Blathering About Sin

Matt cleaned the fridge, made real eggnog and venison chili yesterday. I made stock and...

November 21, 2014

7 Quick Reasons to be Thankful

In light of it being nearly Thanksgiving, indeed, we are basically celebrating it already with...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Men are Human: Even in Church

We are into our 12th year here at Good Shepherd, time being marked by the...

September 02, 2014

Feelings…la la la… feelings

I need a quick take post or something. I have all kinds of various untied...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

All Kinds of Death

Lately I've been overwhelmed and exhausted by Facebook, and really the news in general. I...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Legalistic Grace

I am much addicted to mommy blogs, when I'm not obsessively reading the news (which...

May 13, 2014

Men are Human but so are Women

Slept through Song of Solomon last week so had to go back to it again...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Wordy Wednesday: Frozen

I have a lot of stuff to do today and laying around here choosing words...

April 04, 2014

Seven Quick Takes

OneClassrooms are built and almost completely painted. Actually, they probably are painted. I left church...

April 03, 2014

Men are Human even when they’re pastors

In an effort not to give moment by moment updates on the progress of my...

March 2014

March 11, 2014

National Men’s Day

International Women's Day was last week sometime. I didn't click on a single article to...

March 08, 2014

Of Making Many Books there is no End Because Everybody Wants to be Famous

Cleaned out the books in Matt's office yesterday. Stacks and stacks of books that came...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

7 quick takes: Lent n Stuff

oneI don't want to see the new Jesus movie. Matt made me watch the trailer...

February 17, 2014

an olympic rage: in which i am an elitist judgmental snob

We've been enjoying a nice respite from family movie nights and reality in general by...

February 12, 2014

men are human: the preach moment

I've been thinking about Jael the wife of Heber a lot lately. It's hard not...

February 04, 2014

men are human but what if the man is woody allen

Woke up with a bad headache and the shifting shadow of a bad dream confusing...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

men are human

I've lately been saying to any about to be married couple we come across that...

January 22, 2014

and they rose up to play part two

In my tired fog yesterday I went winding my way around Work and Play straight...