I’m not sure why it’s fixed in my mind that this was a long long week. Maybe because I actually did a lot of the work I’m supposed to be doing all the time. As usual, I’ve been terrible about saving my links up as I go and so now I’m wandering back over the Internet highways and byways trying to find what I found interesting before. This was a funny, pleasant, sensible read about how to sort out married... Read more
I don’t even have enough cerebral anything, as I limp into the weekend, to muster quick takes. Seven whole thoughts about stuff? Gak. Or one single coherent consideration of something terrible in the world? I don’t think so. Not even the debate that I didn’t watch can tempt me. On a day like this when every muscle and toenail just hurts, I think the obvious course is to remind all people everywhere, who might be faced with a child who... Read more
I had that horrible expression ‘Mommy Wars’, stuck in my head when I woke up. It must have been some kind of terrifying dream that I mercifully can’t remember. But the term is an interesting one, if utterly ghastly. First of all, I dislike immensely the word ‘Mommy’. It’s not that I don’t like being a mother, or that being a mother isn’t an essential part of who I am, but the word ‘Mommy’ flung as it is at me... Read more
I happened upon this article many weeks ago and have been chewing it over, in the usual way, along with all the rest of the news. Ms. Dilley writes, most trenchantly, “We can debate gender and parenting all day long. But the Western world, I believe, is making the war almost unwinnable by conceiving of the home as a modern gulag where the lesser breadwinner is sent to perish.” It goes on being pretty well from there. She wishes the... Read more
I made the mistake of clicking on Facebook last night as I was thinking about the possibility of repose, and saw this before I even had time to move my finger down the screen. And then of course I couldn’t sleep. Because, well, the enormity of the injustice and the magnitude of the slaughter is pretty overwhelming. Then this morning I found this headline at the New York Times: Two Abortion Foes Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Are Indicted. And that... Read more
It is needful for me to leap up and do all the things this morning, for reasons that I can’t exactly remember. Matt needs the car or something. All the food needs to be cooked, or maybe it’s that all the house needs to be cleaned. There’s no way to be exactly sure with this gray sky pressing down to obliterate all the happiness a person can muster. No Wait! Not all the happiness! We didn’t get snow here! Would... Read more
I was woken from the stupor of sleep by these familiar and mocking words of Isaiah. “For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people, to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear. And the word... Read more
Wasn’t half wrong about the rich and bubbly cold. Went to bed in the latter part of the day with a fever, feeling that death must somehow be immanent. Tragically, the gray dawn has come anyway and I’m still here. Did manage to slightly console myself with The Great British Bake Off, and also Roadhouse, which wasn’t so much consolation as entirely strange. Today I’ll be lying here catching up on parenting stuff, and people being awful. And I’ll be... Read more
I feel sufficiently recovered from the Anglican Primate’s Extravaganza of news obsession, and have so settled back into the usual way of pushing children through their scholastic paces, that I thought some quick takes might be a nice weekend indulgence. One I know it’s old news, but oh my word, that clip of Trump at Liberty University keeps hurting my Christian sensibilities. It’s not that he said ‘2 Corinthians’ instead of ‘2nd Corinthians’ (although, the fact that that was the... Read more
I have a growing percolating interest in the whole Minimalism thing. For starters, I have a friend who is trying to keep simplicity as her main thing. She blogs about it here. The thing that is lovely about her is that her Christianity is in the driver’s seat, that she is trying to keep her life open for the service of the gospel and not be overburdened with stuff. Because, for reals, who among us isn’t overburdened with stuff. So... Read more
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