Sex Breasts and Babies

Last updated on: December 28, 2014 at 10:58 pm By Calah Alexander

Ah, breastfeeding. That age-old “midday peep show.” Wait, what? Believe it or not, one of the commenters at the Daily Caller called it exactly that, in response to this carefully crafted post by Matt K. Lewis, who politely told conservatives who cry “ick!” in the face of breastfeeding moms that they’re kind of perverted. In some sense, concerns about the mainstreaming of breastfeeding are really part of the backlash against a culture that over-sexualizes everything. It’s understandable that cultural conservatives... Read more

Farewell, Facebook App sob

Last updated on: December 28, 2014 at 11:01 pm By Calah Alexander

Yesterday the Ogre did the worst thing. Well first he did the best thing. He came home from work with an Amazon package and handed me this: Then after I had time to bask sufficiently in the glow of my husband’s awesomeness, he said, “hey, did you ever delete that facebook thing from your phone, like you promised you would on the radio?” Damn. To my credit, I said, “no I did not.” Then I immediately picked up my phone... Read more

Jiggity Jig

Last updated on: December 28, 2014 at 11:07 pm By Calah Alexander

Le sigh. I always leave for Texas with the best of intentions…I’m going to blog every day, or every other day, or once a week at the very least. Naturally, none of this ever happens, which is sometimes okay because my time is otherwise occupied with family and friends, but it’s sometimes not okay because there’s so much swimming around in my head that I want to blog about that not blogging feels like being spellbound. (And yes, I’m totally... Read more

Edel: Party as Precordial Thump

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:27 am By Calah Alexander

I had intended to blog prolifically this weekend from Edel, updating with pictures of crazy shoes, karaoke, and hilarity. But on Tuesday of last week, my sister-in-law’s father died unexpectedly. Vic isn’t just my sister-in-law. She was one of my best friends in college and my maid of honor before she married the Ogre’s brother. Her parents helped her throw us a wedding shower, and helped me throw her a baby shower. They were at our wedding and at each... Read more

Cocktails and Zombies and Pink Hair, Oh My!

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:28 am By Calah Alexander

Like a modern-day Dorothy, in honor of Edel I dyed my hair to match my crazy shoes: Today I’ve got an almost-four-year-old’s birthday party to attend to, but Friday I’ll put up a picture of Rebecca and me in full regalia, crazy shoes and all! That is, if I can master the art of walking in mine. My toes hurt. Read more

Dada Does Breastfeeding

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:33 am By Calah Alexander

Here’s a true thing: there is nothing better than coming to the end of a long, exhausting road trip, only to have three out of four children melt down entirely in the aftermath. One, luckily, has an easily fixable ear infection. The other, slightly less luckily, has no-big-deal-but-must-heal-on-his-own-even-though-he-looks-gruesome-fifth’s disease. The littlest, though, Linc Baby of Doom, a.k.a. Tank, a.k.a “GETHIMOFFMEMOMMYYYYYY!!!!”, has suffered what appears to be a permanent and freaking awful personality transplant. He has become whiny, clingy, needy, angry,... Read more

An Apology to My Parents

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:35 am By Calah Alexander

I did something awful yesterday. Well, I didn’t do it yesterday, but it all came to a head yesterday. I did it a few weeks ago, when Sam interviewed me for his series on the Art of Blogging. I started to go off about the online Evangelical culture that makes me crazy and I conflated that culture with the way I was raised. I lumped my parents in alongside Matt Walsh, who is not my favorite blogger. If someone illustrated... Read more

Is There an Art to Blogging?

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:36 am By Calah Alexander

Sam Rocha thinks there is. He’s been interviewing bloggers about their writing process, and he finally picked me. It’s about dang time, too, because the world really needs to know that my writing process involves copious tears. I weep at the keyboard because the internet isn’t standing in front of me. At least not really. I feel like I can be honest about how difficult life is, just my ordinary life, struggling to stay out of mortal sin, not some... Read more

Radio Redux!

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:37 am By Calah Alexander

So, remember how I was on Sheila Liaugminas’ show on Relevant Radio last week? We barely got started before we had to stop, so Sheila invited us to come back for another hour. We pre-recorded it on Friday and it.was.awesome. I’m not even kidding, it was so much fun to talk with Tod and Tom and Sheila about Synod issues. The conversation was fascinating and funny, so much so that I might even listen to it myself tonight, which I... Read more

Dear God, Please Say Life is Not a Highway

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 9:39 am By Calah Alexander

Because no offense or anything, but if it is I do not want to ride it. At least until our kids get their own cars. We go to Texas every summer to visit family. Most of both our families are here, clustered in and around the DFW metroplex where I grew up. We usually fly standby on Southwest, on passes generously given to us by my uncle and aunt who work for them. Last week, as I was checking flights... Read more