An Outing

Last updated on: February 22, 2018 at 10:13 am By Anne Kennedy

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgHb9Bljfh/ Well, I’ve just hauled six children around New York City for a day–for the purpose of collecting my parents and finally letting my feet fall in the marbled halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but also to shake up their small, narrow lives and show them the wide vista of a world outside their own. This important educational opportunity included shoving them into and out of the subway at rush hour without losing any of them, and remonstrating... Read more

Science Is The Best

Last updated on: February 20, 2018 at 11:05 pm By Anne Kennedy

[What are you going to do? Actually go to the gym?] Well, this is shocking. On average Americans have sixty whole bad days a year. That’s like five a month, isn’t it? That seems like a sensible number actually. Reasons for having a bad day include enduring stress at work, not getting enough sleep, missing out on a hot shower, and, wait for it, suffering the horror of uncooperative hair, as in A Bad Hair Day. That one should have... Read more

Will Tim Tebow Come To Binghamton?

Last updated on: February 20, 2018 at 9:16 am By Anne Kennedy

[This is how comfortable I need to be if I’m going to have to watch the game, or whatever it’s called.] Just read a whole slate of articles about sports. That’s the genius of the internet. Without trying, or paying attention, it’s possible to read thousands of words on a subject one cares nothing about. As in, sportsing. But good writing, or even sort of decent if mediocre writing, or, barring that, clickbait can be really compelling. So in half... Read more

Monday on the Preferred Pronouns Podcast and Links

Last updated on: February 19, 2018 at 10:40 pm By Anne Kennedy

Woke up extra early and did up a gorgeous little podcast about technology, books, the demise of B&N, whether or not you should download your personality into another younger body, why you should call God by his preferred pronouns, and how shocked the children were that we really wanted them to clean up. Also, Matt learns to make meat pie. Truly, it’s an experience you probably, I’m pretty sure, but don’t sue me, won’t want to miss. And now, let... Read more

Who Can Endure This Favorable Time?

Last updated on: February 18, 2018 at 7:44 am By Anne Kennedy

I’ve already blogged too much about Lent–as if it’s some sort of obsession. Which it might be. But it does go on for several weeks. And it seems like maybe the perfect antidote for what’s ailing me and the rest of the world. The chief ailment being the expectation that here and now life should be something more than short and appalling. I mean, if you were a poor peasant huddled in your Middle Ages hovel, you would have looked... Read more

The End of Average, A Short Review

Last updated on: February 17, 2018 at 11:02 am By Anne Kennedy

Mere moments after listening to the fading dulcet tones of the Esolen Out of the Ashes book, I clicked play on The End of Average by Todd Rose, which I came to know about at the recommendation of my dad who is always thinking about pedagogy and how to get students through difficult academic work successfully. I should be thinking about this sort of thing too, instead of flying along in a fog of guilt, and have now been twice... Read more

7 Social Media Takes

Last updated on: February 16, 2018 at 10:09 am By Anne Kennedy

It’s a hot, gray Friday, so that must mean Takes. One By hot I mean 40 degrees F. Everyone is lying around in a stupor. We’re supposed to still be frozen, not languid with heat. But also, the sky is burdened with gray clouds, oppressively so. Maybe it’s the apocalypse, or maybe it’s just Friday. Two The children have been arguing about what to give up for lent. One said he would not touch his iPod, except to listen to... Read more

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

Last updated on: February 15, 2018 at 9:32 am By Anne Kennedy

I’m pretty sure I’m going to need to depend even more than usual on my emotional support peacock to get through Lent. But I seem to have misplaced it, since I can’t find it anywhere in this cluttered house, so I should drop everything and look, since I know that if I just search hard enough, it will come to me. I’m gonna do that instead of other things. Like finally deciding what to give up, besides sin obviously, for... Read more

Ashes for Love

Last updated on: February 14, 2018 at 11:22 am By Anne Kennedy

To prove my holiness both to God and to myself, I got up really early and forewent the morning blog to go to church. In so doing I nearly made Matt late for the liturgy and had to run around all by myself unlocking doors and mixing the Ash into some kind of paste that would stick to anyone. Didn’t wake the children up to bring them along because I’m not That holy, just a little bit holy, signified by... Read more

Every Day is Lent

Last updated on: February 13, 2018 at 10:23 am By Anne Kennedy

As usual, I’m really looking forward to Lent. I think it’s because Lent is essentially the basic expression of my personality. Some people are stuck in Christmas and tinsel, others rush around trying to self identify with Easter, but for me, by the time I get to Lent, and then to Holy Week, it’s like I can finally take a real breath after trying to hold it for nearly a whole year. And that with rarely ever giving anything up... Read more