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September 2016

September 03, 2016

Saturday on the Undiscerning Links

A charming podcast this week in which we give way to roiling anger about heresy...

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...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

A Broken Outrage Machine, Four News Stories

Gosh, the Internet is keyed up this morning. Burkini Ban, that Football Player, Facebook Algorithm...

August 19, 2016

Writers Block: I Write About Writing

I've just spent the last half hour looking for Friday blogging memes. That's how desperate...

August 16, 2016

Sight for the Depressed and Foolish

I appear to have been woken up early so that I can take a walk--an...

August 13, 2016

Saturday on the Marriageable Links

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

August 09, 2016

Salon, Walsh Jennings, and the Shame of Motherhood

Ah the olympics. Still not watching them. Haven't regretted it for a moment. Did fall...

August 04, 2016

The Well Intended Hosta

I halted all reasonable and normal activity yesterday to dig up one of the massive...

August 03, 2016

Trump and the Infant Cry

So I did give in and watch the clip of Mr. Trump throwing the baby...

August 01, 2016

Lunacy and Failure: I Fly into the Week

Shocked and saddened to see that some people out there, in this great YUGE country,...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Bats in the Attic

There's a curious hazard about centering your life around the church and the church year....

July 27, 2016

Oh the Humanity Mr. Clinton

Post birthday stupor is making news reading kind of a drag, especially since--and I do...

July 21, 2016

Three Reasons to Love the Cruz Convention Speech

I guess everything has been said that can be said about last night's RNC shocker...

July 15, 2016

HuffPo Corrects the Pope

Woke up ready to write seven lovely things about this house, or seven meltdowns I've...

July 14, 2016

Pokemon Go, Walmart, and a Muttering

Spent a significant portion of yesterday in the car, birthday shopping and shuttling people various...

July 07, 2016

The Life Changing Art of Packing Up

Well, I've done everything I can do to avoid packing. Today is the day to...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Self Care: A Lamentation

Still, just to pick up in the middle of yesterday's thought, I don't love the...

June 15, 2016

If I Work Hard Enough I Win

I'm not ready to start thinking about work again, being only, strangely enough, in the...

June 09, 2016

Confessions of a Bad Reader

My husband tried to command me to blog about Rachel Held Evans saying something or...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Because Of Course: The Transgender Jesus

I was going to rail on about packing and laundry, because that could be funny,...

May 18, 2016

The Importance of Being Funny

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

May 10, 2016

Watching Food Competition TV With Children

However long ago, when we came to the end of the Great British Bakeoff, there...

May 06, 2016

A Case for Getting Rid of Mother’s Day

Facebook has been busily reminding me that Mother's Day is in three days--not soon enough...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Jen Hatmaker and a Most Courageous Status

I like to think I'm on the cutting edge of these cultural times, but really,...

April 26, 2016

Helpful Advice for the Dentist and the Preacher

It was fitting that I had to go to the dentist yesterday, being in the...

April 22, 2016

7QT: Virtue Signaling My Happiness Edition

One On Friday mornings the boys and Matt go to men's bible study, leaving me...

April 17, 2016

A Salt Encrusted Selfie

Not to return too bitterly into the past, but I fell off the glorious upward...

April 08, 2016

I’m Here for You Facebook: 7 Helpful Hints

We may indeed be facing the apocalypse. Bloomberg reports a tragedy of magnificent proportions, "Facebook...

April 06, 2016

The Panic Driven Life

I had some more things to say about feminism and Barbara Pym, but because I...

April 04, 2016

Don’t Prooftext, Even on Monday

I shouldn't exactly be lying here messing around on the internet because I have a...