We’re off to another interest meeting in an hour for the school if you are in town and have a burning desire to know more Arrowhead Parable Bookstore1 Harry L. Drive10:30am Obviously it would have been a lot nicer of me to give a few days warning. The next one isTuesday March 23, 6:30pm, same location. I’ve been setting here for an hour trying to decide whether to blog or whether to link the long list of blogs I’ve been... Read more
The beautiful unintended consequence of laying bare my insecurity for all to see was all the excellent and brilliant comments left on the post under this one. Thank you all so much. I’m moving my mother’s comment up here, for you all to see because she really explained it better than I did, and is inspiring me to write the painful autobiographical examples of hostility from my youth. Here’s what she said. It’s obviously time I straightened out the writer... Read more
I was reminded again this weekend that I’ve never given an explanation for the title of this blog. When one sets out to name a blog, unlike the process of naming a child, or a school, one casts about in one’s mind, thinks of several cutesy things, finally says, ‘whatever, I’m naming it this’, logs onto blogger, finds the name surprisingly not claimed and signs up. Then one posts pretty little posts of how to make bread and all the... Read more
I posted this clip a long while ago but I think its due again, not only because it is lent but, just because. You probably all know what I’m talking about. Read more
I’m so behind on blog reading and people are saying so many interesting things out there that I can barely be spared to write anything here. HOWEVER, I need to come out of my not totally unusual silence and invite all of you in the Binghamton area who are trying to figure out how to educate your children to come to the first of many Informational Meetings for a school (March 13, 10:30am). All my joking over the years about... Read more
I’ve been noticing lately an interesting difference between my little boys and my little girls. Its a difference that any sensible person might observe and there have even been studies done on it. My little girls cannot bear to hear the baby cry. Whey she cries, Elphine goes immediately to pick her up. Gladys goes automatically to jam a plug (pacifier, we call them plugs because that’s what they are, really, let’s not beat euphemistically about the bush) in her... Read more
Well, really, I am, upsetting and horribly busy.I intended to blog every day last week but many mornings I didn’t even open my computer. So, because a list is really all I have minutes for, here are those things that I ought to have done, have done, or probably ought not to have done…it is lent after all: —Thank You Notes. I HAVE to write thank you notes. I’m So bad at them. I have a stack of them sitting... Read more
I’ve been trying to think of something to write about for the last three hours and I give up. I think its largely due to the fact that I haven’t read anything for several days nor watched anything but stuff like this But really, you should go check this out. Lauren was in my class at school and remembers for us all what dating was like at ICA. One freak out warning, though, the staff at our now defunct school... Read more
Matt just posted this at Stand Firm.But personally, as a young adult (I guess I’m probably on the end of being able to say that about myself, ouch) I prefer this:(warning profanity, vulgarity and the possibility that you will be deeply offended) I’d say, for those of you trying to understand Anglicanism, this should really just help everything fall into place. Read more
One There is SO Much snow and its still coming down at a good clip. Have been thinking all kinds of snarky things like, ‘Al Gore must be in town’, and ‘Praise God for Global Warming’ and….well, basically just how much I hate cold weather and that its not that pretty. No one else shares my feelings. All my children are in love with it. Yuck. Two Spent Thursday entirely in bed entirely in pain. My left ear has always... Read more
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