It is always very hard for us to come up with a family movie that doesn’t send one or more of the children into a tailspin of despair and whining. Not being a person who likes movies at all, I’m not usually very helpful. Matt likes movies but is powerless to conjure up anything that two adults, two boys, the teenage thing, and little girls will all be able to bear. Plus the combined sarcastic impulses of all of us... Read more
Oh my word, I slept too late, and I need to be at the church right now in order to run around in a circle and wave my arms around in a hysterical way. Sort of kidding. There’s just a lot on my mind and none of it is interesting enough to put on the Internet, which lets you know how bad it is. To mollify myself for not waking up early enough to blog, horrors, here is the truest... Read more
It’s Friday, for true, but that just means that the real work starts for me–so how bout some Takes. One Synod is next week. Should I use an exclamation point? I’m not sure. All I know is I’ve got stuff to do. Lots and lots and lots of stuff. Of all the stuff, though, the most important is availing myself of a shovel and getting out there and digging up the hostas in my Binghamton Garden. Truly, I cannot bear... Read more
[Angel weeping from sheer boredom.] I confess, I did get sucked into watching that terribly weird song and dance on Bill Nye. I didn’t watch the whole program–going to Netflix and looking around and then clicking play is not something I am ever going to have time for, unless it’s The Office–just the clip which some strange soul took the time to watch enough to cut out and put on YouTube. Maybe we should crowd fund some therapy for that... Read more
We here in the west are living side by side with two incompatible world views and definitions of love. Read more
This morning I am So Honored and Thrilled to be able to have the Rev. Tim Fountain post here. I’m not good about knowing which months are for celebrating or remembering or working on which issues, but I did somehow figure out that April, which is almost over, is Autism Awareness Month. Tim’s blog, Sometimes Care Giving Stinks, has been a true help to me over the years when I’ve wanted to complain more but needed a smart knock on... Read more
Good Moaning. It’s going to be pretty warm today which is sad because I need to clean my house. Feel really tragic about it. To console myself I persuaded Matt to indulge in the Usual Podcast wherein we try to understand why human language is turning out to be such a failure in our current cultural and political climate. Gender, politics, theology–we’re offensive about it all. Enjoy! And now on to Links. Hmmm. What do we have today? First up,... Read more
While I was lying around all week not thinking about anything of substance, an interesting conversation worked itself out on twitter about Platform. Not just Platform in general, which is basically a flat surface upon which you can stand in order to be heard, but the Platform that is required in the world of books and blogs. If you want people to read what you’re writing, you have to have a place to say it. And if you want lots... Read more
This whole week has been ‘house’ laying around Notes, and now I really need to go paint. So here is what I did for that nice cake, and also the chocolate pots, and then I must dash off. Lemon Cake Take the recipe for Orange Rum cake in the Joy of Cooking but then, because you have no orange and no rum, start to make the cake but don’t do anything that it says in the recipe. Just do the... Read more
I don’t really deserve Quick Takes after a lame-o week of blogging, but I’m going to have them anyway. So sue me. Actually, please don’t sue me. One This is truly brilliant. I have watched more disembodied food video hands this week than at probably any other moment in my existence and the refreshing flair of this one is truly wondrous. I really have not been able to pin down what is so mesmerizing about the food video. I have... Read more
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