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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...

May 2022

May 12, 2022

Good News!

The new theme of this blog is turning into 'Oh My Word I Don't Have...

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Eyes and Skin

This is the most wonderful thing I've seen in ages: A Russian art gallery guard...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

Maybe We Will Live and Do This and That

Jesus as excited as Piers Morgan about Harry and Megan being interviewed by Oprah. Well,...

February 2021

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...

December 2020

December 03, 2020

Make Humor Great Again

Sorry to be so late this morning--technical difficulties (as in, I can't figure out how...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Bilbo’s Birthday and Other Kinds of Toxic Masculinity

It’s Bilbo’s birthday today, in case you were wondering. I wasn’t, particularly, but Matt has...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

Three Things on Thursday

Well, I finished one whole thing (!) so I’m gonna cheat and let myself have...

April 02, 2020

Three Things On Thursday: Pray More

Jesus pondering what Mr. DeBlasio thinks about Christian Doctrine Now that coronavirus is our regular...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

Five Things Before Friday

Jesus, reading Twitter during the night. I was going to do Three Things on Thursday,...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

Three Things on Thursday

The First Thing Today is Ascension Day, if you were anxiously waiting. I wrote this...

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 20, 2019

What Matters?

Well, here I am, late as usual, casting my weak-minded net around the internet, like...

January 2019

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,...

November 2018

November 06, 2018

Two Trite Things For Tuesday

[Jesus excited about Election Day in America.] Well, it’s Election Day. So that’s going to...

August 2018

August 07, 2018

That’s Not Funny

Afraid to say I got sucked in reading all those tweets by that person who...

February 2018

February 10, 2018

Who’s The Clever One Now?

Midweek I realized that all the children were waiting for me to get well so...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

Laughing at Death

We are well into the clambering season of Christmas movie argumentation. There are ten or...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Three Things for Thursday

A Happy and Blessed Rosh Hashanah to all those celebrating today. Is that the word?...

September 14, 2017

Good News!

[This cat has no sense of humor, which is a problem for all of us.]...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Words or Pictures?

Matt found and posted on Facebook this fantastic picture of Trump crushing the serpent (who,...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

More To Cheer Your Day

We're off to Cooperstown for the day and my mind has sort of hit a...

July 05, 2017

Porcupine Eating Corn

Here's something to brighten your day while I go do some less cheerful things like...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

To Vaguebook or to Overshare? That is the Question.

I ran into a hashtag in twitter, yesterday, for English words that are pleasurable to...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

My Favorite New Word: Buffoonification

Your sex, and then your gender, are Who You Are and are the Most Important...

May 24, 2017

Botoxing the Bridesmaids

It's getting to be wedding season and now, more than ever, is a great time...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Saturday on the Run

Oh my word, I slept too late, and I need to be at the church...

April 11, 2017

Pious Holy Week News Commentary

[Jesus excited to see what Pepsi will do next.] Swinging wildly back and forth between...

April 08, 2017

Book Notes: A Wodehouse Diagnostic Quiz

Someone asked a very reasonable question some indeterminate time ago which I neglected to answer...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

Super Bowl Podcast and Other Various Links

Good Moaning. I'm off to take the children to the dentist and then later I...