My apologies for the post I just deleted, which said I had a feature on Faith and Family today. I was warned in plenty of time that that article would be bumped to Wednesday, but I forgot to change the scheduled publishing time on my post here, so it went up before I was even out of bed. Sorry about that! There’s usually something interesting at Faith and Family anyway, but, you know, tomorrow it will be meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Read more
I was shopping with my eight-year-old son, and the checkout lane was the usual gauntlet of trashy magazines. I was about say my usual warning line, which is, “Do yourself a favor and don’t look at that garbage,” when I heard him GASP. “Look!” he said, “–Kittens!” Sure enough, it was a picture of kittens: I love that kid. I also love my other, 6-year-old son, of course, but he would not have focused on the kittens. He’s more this... Read more
I got all writey today, and posted something about tattoo removal on Inside Catholic. It’s silly – don’t even bother going over there. I already commented on my own post, so I won’t be too lonely if you don’t. Read more
Today, I’m really glad to have a Monday joke lined up, because I’m going to do something kind of awful first, and I don’t want you to be mad at me. Here is this video. I guess it’s a local TV station that gives political candidates a minute or so to make their case directly to the voter. So here’s what one guy came up with: Now, being a kind and generous person, I thought to myself, “Wellllllll . .... Read more
Maybe I should have read the blogging tutorial, but it’s too late now: my first blog post is up on the new, improved Inside Catholic. It’s about this: by Daniel Mitsui, spotted on Korrektiv. Read more
Boy, this list was much harder to make than I expected! Too many subcategories. I’ll just have to be satisfied with a general theme of “sevenness,” but I’d like to do more reading lists later. Or is that boring? These are just seven books which I enjoyed as a child, which my kids read or wanted to hear over and over again, and, most importantly, which I didn’t mind reading to my kids over and over again. There are so... Read more
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So far this week, I’ve talked about cute shoes, not-cute shoes, Burl Ives, Raffi, and photogenic lichen. Time for a palate cleanser, don’t you think? And so, with some well-justified trepidation, we welcome back . . . Hi, I’m The Jerk. It’s awful nice of Simcha to let me back here after last week. Things got a little carried away. I said some things that maybe I shouldn’t have. You all said some things maybe you shouldn’t have. The way... Read more
We have a newish van. It’s a rebuilt vehicle, which means that some of its parts–the boring ones, like the brakes and the engine–are new and shiny; but others are weirdly out of date. The body, for instance, sports a car-length blue and silver geometric decal straight from 1989. It is radical. When I drive it, I feel radical. There is some matching detail symmetrically adorning the back doors, which makes it look disconcertingly like our van has a little... Read more
I am not great with clothes shopping. As I have mentioned before, shopping bundles together being fat and being old and being cheap into a tense, ugly ball of being miserable, effectively blotting out the pleasure of getting new stuff. You’d think shoe shopping would be different–easier, simpler, less emotionally fraught. You don’t even have to look in the mirror. But somehow, I make it difficult. I don’t know how it is, but all the shoes I come home with... Read more
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