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January 2017

January 13, 2017

7 Frenzied Takes

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

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Leia: Age at its Best

Well, I didn't paint the kitchen yesterday. I walked all the way downstairs and sat...

December 15, 2016

Bad Anglican Christmas Carols

Ah, the dulcet sounds of Christmas music found in every corner of every space, and...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Advent One Podcast and Links

This morning we struggle to ramble on about Advent and why anyone should celebrate it....

November 03, 2016

The Curse of the Goat for All of America

Trying to understand this goat curse. Had never heard of it before this week. Even...

October 2016

October 22, 2016

Autumnal Notes

For a while now that I've looked out my bedroom window it's been what I...

August 2016

August 27, 2016

Saturday on the Book and Marriage Links

Podcast this week is a scintillating discussion of how to get your wife to stop...

August 20, 2016

Saturday on the Parenting and Marriage Links

This week's Podcast is all about parenting, men's strength, and how to get your husband...

August 13, 2016

Saturday on the Marriageable Links

The usual scintillating podcast in which we entirely skip over the Olympics and take up...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

The Importance of Being Funny

I've had a niggling sense, for some time now, that one of the biggest problems...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

Posie and Sheol: A Bitter Lamentation

We are in a Zero Tolerance moment with our puppy who came to believe, very...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

Guest Post: An Open Letter to the ABC

I'm supposed to be working on my book, and Sunday School stuff, and I have...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

Monday Morning Gray

Here I lie, continuing in my post thanksgiving stupor. It is raining and the snow...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Barbara Pym on Various Topics

Been threatening a post about Barabara Pym for some time and as I have nothing...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Why Have All These Children Been Given All These Swords?

Elphine won her first little fencing match or parry or whatever it's called last night....

September 2013

September 18, 2013

a little tasty morsel

We get all kinds of church supply catalogues in the mail nearly every day. Indeed,...

November 2011

November 14, 2011

hardy har har

From Rudyard Kipling's Captain's Courageous:Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all...

October 2011

October 09, 2011

faith the size of a small plastic bead?

So some of you might have seen on Facebook that Gladys did indeed put a...

June 2011

June 17, 2011

This Fisk Wasn’t for Me but I’m taking it anyway

One Phyllis Strupp, of whom I have never before heard, thinks that Father, and by...

June 08, 2011

Now in the fading light of day

Romulus came weeping down to the laundry room. "They're not letting me have FUN!" he...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

Hee Hee

From Charles Williams Decent into Hell"Don't you think so?" Watteau, whose actual name was Myrtle...

January 2010

January 10, 2010

a little something for a Sunday evening

I'm sorry but this is So Funny

April 2009

April 24, 2009

And Because I Just Can’t Stop Blogging

(What is my problem today!!!)This is my new favorite thing ever.h/t Et Tu Jen

April 24, 2009

And Because I Just Can’t Stop Blogging

(What is my problem today!!!)This is my new favorite thing ever.h/t Et Tu Jen

November 2008

November 01, 2008

Quotes from the Week

I was sorely tempted to do a Saturday on the Links: Highly Infuriating Blogs that...

April 2007

April 01, 2007

Sunday Conversations

Anne in a sleep laden effort to sort out the implications of the Don Armstrong