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July 2017

July 14, 2017

7 Not Quite Quick Takes

Good Moaning. It's a cool, gray day, up here, how 'bout some Takes. One To...

July 07, 2017

7 Takes For Such A Time As This

It's Friday! That's Takes! One We've been having a lovely, languid first true week of...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

7 Takes to Recovering Sane Disciplines

Can you believe it? June is over. This shouldn't upset me, but truly, it seems...

June 23, 2017

7 Things I’m Not Doing This Summer

Kelly's Takes today are a brilliant roadmap to a trouble free summer and I applaud...

June 16, 2017

Children Are People Too

Going to try to accumulate the clever things I wanted to say about parenting yesterday,...

June 09, 2017

7 Scattered Takes

Here I am, awake with the dawn, leaping up to industry and...oh never mind, I...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

7 Pleading Takes

As a chastisement for comparing the Holy Spirit to Mark Hamill, which wasn't very nice,...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

7 The Internet is Nuts Takes

It's Friday, for true, but that just means that the real work starts for me--so...

April 21, 2017

7 Thrilling Takes

I don't really deserve Quick Takes after a lame-o week of blogging, but I'm going...

April 07, 2017

7 Takes to Reality

Friday. Therefore Takes. One It's snowing! And it looks like we bombed Syria during the...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

7 Brady Bunch Option Takes

The rain is raining all around and I've started to pray about the river, which...

March 24, 2017

7 God Must Be Angry Takes

Can I still be blaming stuff on the time change? Pretty sure I can. Going...

March 17, 2017

Is There an Option for Getting Rid of Snow?

Another long week, lengthened by the heavy burden of snow. One Can't believe that Binghamton...

March 10, 2017

7 Living Inside the Box Takes

Kelly's Takes today are about what is working in her homeschool. I might as well...

March 03, 2017

7 Toothsome Takes

Its Friday! And that means Takes. One It appears that if you want to buy...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

7 More Reasons For Lent And Date Night

[Jesus watching you be awesome by the power of your awesomeness.] Many weeks ago I...

February 17, 2017

7 Facebook Cares About My Memories Takes

One Over the years I've come to grab onto 7 Quick Takes like the drowning...

February 03, 2017

Seven Infantilized Takes

One I didn't mean to go on a tear about Self Care for a whole...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

7 Suffering Takes

It's Friday, and that means Takes One If you're looking for a good workout, Kelly...

January 13, 2017

7 Frenzied Takes

One One of my favorite ways to read the Bible is to wake up way...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

7 Narcissistic Takes

I was busying trying to write something mean, funny and poignant about Lena Dunham (I...

December 23, 2016

7 Takes to a Happy Christmas

One It's super apocalyptic to be reading Jonah and Revelation at the same time in...

December 16, 2016

7 Amazed Takes

One I've had a bit of a strange week. If you wanted to know why...

December 09, 2016

7 Roiling Takes

One Didn't mean to become all Book all the time, but considering that I only...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

Seven Better Things to do than Read the News

A lifetime ago I enumerated a twenty better things to do than vote. Today, because...

October 2016

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 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...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

7 Narcissistic Takes

One I am lying here in the early dawn covered by dogs and the chatter...

September 23, 2016

7 Sick Takes

How the mighty, or rather, the moderately functional, have fallen. I have a bad head...

September 02, 2016

7 More Homeschool Takes, No We Still Haven’t Started

One The children have started asking if we can start school. I am more than...