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August 2018

August 29, 2018

A Revolutionary New Dating Technique

I need to stop looking at headlines at night, or in the morning, or on...

August 28, 2018

I Don’t Agree With Everything

In the new disorienting social media enforced orthodoxy, there is a refrain that almost everyone...

August 08, 2018

Meditation Upon A List

Woke up to this brilliant and wonderful piece. It’s very short. You’ll want to read...

August 07, 2018

That’s Not Funny

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

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Meditation Upon A Box Of Junk

Have been digging out the attic, practically with a shovel, so that Matt and I...

July 29, 2018

Wellness Architecture, Peace, and Rusty Metal

I have lately been immersing myself in some of the theology of the age, trying...

July 24, 2018

How To Ruin Everything In Two Easy Steps

Was well rewarded in my internet search this morning by first this, and then this....

July 10, 2018

What It Takes To Look Beautiful

I love this so much. Besides the felicity of not having to read of the...

June 2018

June 17, 2018

A Happy Waiting

Made a valiant attempt to sleep through the night but gave up around 3:30 and...

June 06, 2018

The Search for the Perfect Purse

One thing about me drives my husband crazy. It isn’t my fretting desire to keep...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Measuring out a Table in the Wilderness

I got to be on the Ride Home With John and Kathy yesterday, talking about...

April 24, 2018

The Orthopedic War On Women

Paused in the middle of bashing my way around the garden yesterday, because, and I'm...

April 20, 2018

7 Takes in Self-Improvement

It's Friday, did you know? One Apparently, the weather is going to shift soon, as...

April 08, 2018

Rest on Sunday and Every Other Day

Came to a depressed halt in the middle of Numbers this week. I find the...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

Your Grammar Rules Are Oppressing Me

I've got nothing today. And am miserably hampered by this new keyboard I downloaded as...

March 14, 2018

RIP Stephen Hawking

I woke up much later than I wanted to, of course, because of daylight savings,...

March 07, 2018

3 Ways To Be Happier

[Oh look! My room is already done up in pastels!] In my obedient quest to...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Science Is The Best

[What are you going to do? Actually go to the gym?] Well, this is shocking....

February 15, 2018

I’m Probably Going To Just Peacock My Way Through Lent

I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to depend even more than usual on my...

February 03, 2018

The Ruinous Writing Life

I love this article so much. The pictures, for one thing, are lovely--indeed, are exactly...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

Identity and Motherhood

The more materially and physically comfortable you are, the more likely you are to think...

January 17, 2018

My New Winter Coat

I confess that even though delays and cancellations for snow concern me not at all,...

January 03, 2018

It’s The Worry That Makes It Interesting

[This cat disapproves of all your clothes and you in general.] I trust you didn't...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Getting Wisdom In A New Year

If you want to be happy, you’re heart is going to have to find wisdom...

December 30, 2017

In Which I Make Resolutions For The New Year

Santa is really all about grace, or should be. There shouldn't be any seeing you...

December 21, 2017

Putting the Win Back Into Winsome

Got to be on the Ride Home with John and Kathy yesterday, about the 15...

December 20, 2017

10 Steps to a Stress Free Christmas

The main headline on Drudge this morning--well, that one above the headline--is that eight out...

December 01, 2017

7 Takes to #NailedIt

It's Friday and that means Takes! One Welcome to all you who stumbled onto my...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

Book Notes: Discipline to Whimsy

This year I have desperately tried to effect a recovery of reading. I know I...

November 21, 2017

Today I’m Thankful For God’s Affliction

This is one of the distinguishing marks of Christianity, and why Christians are such strange...