It is a bright, clear, cold day (finally) in the Northeast and we’ve rousted ourselves after all our travels to do a moderately lengthened podcast about where we’ve been, why we’ve been so bad at podcasting, what we should think about eating for Reformation Day even though it’s already gone by, and how it’s better to leave your house for a week in the hands of basically catechized Christian children than pagan ones. It’s everything you could expect, really, so... Read more
Is it Thursday? It is, but I only have one thing because I’ve got to rush along. This is tragic, epic, very well written, and fascinating: Sophia — a 19-year old communications student who goes to a small school in British Columbia, and declined to give her last name for privacy reasons — was just approved for sterilization by her doctor in Canada. She told me she has a great relationship with her parents who are “super chill” about her... Read more
Well, even though I am in Florida looking at very large birds (that’s not why I’m here, I’m just distracted by them all…is there a bird hashtag on insta? birdsofinsta?) I did get lured into reading that NY Times piece that came out yesterday about evangelicalism. Of course, the thing felt like clickbait, and then I clicked, so that’s too bad. I should have been high-minded enough to ignore it. But I am only mortal, I have feet of clay... Read more
I kid you not, if you type ‘Friday’ into Unsplash, this is what comes up. It’s the end of the week, whether any of us want to admit it or not. One I’m late this morning because I just wasted an hour whacking at my own hair. Everyone in this house is in dire need of a haircut–something I do for others, but generally refrain from doing to myself–because I’ve been putting it off and off. I do like cutting... Read more
As usual, I didn’t mean not to blog yesterday, I slept long past my ordinary time, which was good, because then I wrote something else that’s been hanging over my head. This business of missing days blogging here and there is very grievous unto me, but is probably just as well what with the internet being full up of too much stuff anyway. If it is God striking me down, I am fine with that. Anyway, I have some interesting... Read more
Autumn Last Year The leaves outside my window right now are still green and our big front tree has gone a sort of gentle yellow, but not nice enough to bother taking any pictures. I’ve given up on autumn, I just don’t care anymore. I’m going to do “self-autumn” which is where I just don’t care about anything. In celebration of this momentous decision we’ve done a decently lengthed podcast explaining why we didn’t record one last week, and why... Read more
I knew this month would be a rush and it is: One We finally celebrated Matt’s 50th birthday yesterday only to turn around and dash into celebrating the now 14-year-old’s birthday. As in, she is turning 14 today, so that’s sort of epic. Let’s see, that makes the ages of all my children something like 19, 17, 15, 14, 11 (12 in 12 days), and 10. Is this why I feel like I’m running my legs off? Tragically, my house... Read more
Ash, as I like best to remember him. My Death of a Pet piece is out from the paywall over at equip.org. Enjoy! “Swoosh.” That was the sound of a mighty rushing wind and suddenly my golden, syrup-laden pancake disappeared in the twinkling of an eye. Gone — devoured by one of the most clever, captivating pets a child could ever love, the Common Genet, a lithe, elegant creature with big eyes, spots and stripes, enormous ears, retractable claws, and a long... Read more
Well, I’m very sorry that I keep accidentally taking blogging breaks. It was not at all my intention to fall off the internet for three whole days and miss yet another podcast. But, well, I’m not so young as I was and I can’t seem to push through a lot of the circumstances of life that used to be easily shoved over to one side in the interest of the morning blog. Things like the deep discouragement of Matt about... Read more
Matt would not eat this, of course, even if it were still his birthday. Well goodness, a whole week has gone swiftly by. Let’s see what we can rustle up. One I did not intend to take off blogging yesterday, but I ended up with a foul and terrible headache in the middle of the night, which left me curled in the fetal position scrolling through google on my phone trying to figure out if I was definitely dying, or... Read more
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