I have but a moment or two to write; my wife Cat naps on the couch before me, and will soon awaken. Many of you have been kind enough to write me relative to the couple of little pieces I’ve recently posted about My Life Generally. To you I’m moved to say this: In the 51 years I’ve thus far spent being alive, nothing has ever come close to confusing and challenging me as has the degree to which Cat... Read more
As some of you know, I’m currently writing a (funny/not so funny) memoir that takes off from the depths of my sudden conversion experience to an exploration of my life up to that point. If you would like to be notified when that memoir is finished (or would perhaps like to read and comment upon chunks of it as I go) (more…) Read more
Hey, I really want to thank those of you who so kindly commented on the last couple of posts I’ve done on my family. I have found your expressions of sympathy quite dramatically moving. Thank you, very much. Some of you have been kind enough to ask how it all sort of ultimately went with my family. The very short version is that, unsurprisingly, it went awfully. As a teenager my sister moved to Hawaii (she now has four grown... Read more
My sister and I finally found out where our mom was during the two years she disappeared. Read more
We Christians need to stop embarrassing ourselves with the likes of Carrie Prejean. Read more
Pretty much the first lesson I learned from my new "mom" was Be Afraid. Read more
One minute your mom is there, but you're dad is gone; the next your dad is back, your mom is gone, and you have a NEW mom. Life. You couldn't make it up. Read more
One minute you have a mother (and a father, for that matter), and the next moment you don't. Life can be funny that way. Read more
Every year on Mother’s Day I find myself feeling for all those whom the good Lord saw fit to birth unto a woman no more suited for motherhood than June Cleaver was suited for professional mud wrestling. All around them others are waxing rhapsodic about their loving, tender, wise, resourceful, self-sacrificing Exemplary Mother, while they’re stuck remembering how their loser witch of a mom used to feed them cat food, or lock them naked outside in the rain, or in... Read more
Two things to remember about your abusive man: His lovable qualities aren't unique to him, and he purposefully uses those qualities to keep you hooked. Read more
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