Apparently, today is International Cat Day. Here is a cat who numbers all days as hateful, especially days when she is drug back in from the neighbor’s yard to which she persists on fleeing, as if they would love her better than we do. I think I’ve already documented the great trauma of having dysfunctional cats, but on this auspicious day, I might as well do it again. First, we have to cover all our living room furniture laboriously with... Read more
A “friend” alerted me to something called the Thrive Journal yesterday, which unfortunately has no videos of any kind on youtube, which led me to watch, instead, two or three reviews of the Self Journal. Unfortunately for me, before wandering down this questionable rabbit trail, I just happened to read through Colossians, which doesn’t take that long even half awake, and caused me to notice something sort of depressing—Paul is awfully obsessed with Jesus. I traced my way back through... Read more
Well, if you were wondering if there could possibly be a God, you can absolutely rest assured that there absolutely is because I, who generally dread August for its Back-To-School properties and Oh-Shoot-It’s-Going-to-be-My-Birthday dread have just been given the greatest gift—I’m sorry, I mean, just Been Gifted with the greatest gift—I could possibly have hoped for. That’s right, my dears, August has been transformed into National Wellness Month. Here is the Official Declaration: All during August, National Wellness Month focuses... Read more
My feelings about the Dentist. I’m kicking off my wretched birthday month with a lot of time spent at the dentist. I’m not sure why this had had to be my particular cross to lug around, but I have really bad teeth combined with a powerful gag reflex, both of which most dentists determine to be moral failings. As in, if you were a better kind of person you wouldn’t have these very bad teeth. Never mind that my teeth... Read more
“For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” Ecclesiastes 1:18 We rolled into town sometime yesterday, relieved and happy that no child decided to throw up midway, wondering if the roses had been destroyed by those viridian iridescent beetles that nestle in between velvety petals, like Satan himself, silently devouring the beauty of summer. The children all tumbled out of the car and strewed their belongings all over the driveway. Matt sped steadfastly into... Read more
This was a pretty interesting article, about which I don’t have much time (heh heh heh) to say anything…except, on the one hand, yes of course. I think women (to generalize too broadly) are easier to interrupt than men. Witness that I was in a coffee shop yesterday, trying to write, and my children called me no less than eleven times to ask what kinds of things they could eat, even though their father was in the kitchen ready and... Read more
[This Morning Jesus is Super Excited about all of your efforts to climb out of the pit you have dug for yourself.] I wasn’t going to say any more about it (the gospel of Self-Help), because you’re all going to get pretty irritated. But then someone, purporting to be my friend, sent me the most ghastly meme, throwing me, as it were, back into the fray, and so I’ll just have one more brief word. Here is the meme: It’s... Read more
[Used by permission of the artist who manages to capture just the right tone, I think.] We just popped in for a brief hello and to complain about a lot of the news–mainly the I Kissed Dating Goodbye person, puritanism and purity, and why you should try to concentrate on Jesus and not yourself. Matt waxes (cough) eloquent about that man who is trying to get women to give him a Brazillian treatment and I have some things to say... Read more
One thing that has lately been irritating me about American culture is the perverse habit some have of setting two necessary values in opposition to each other that were meant to live in tense and discomfiting balance.* Godly wisdom, which you would get through education and thinking about stuff, would help you know which way to tilt without absolutely letting go of the other value. Faith and Science, Liturgy and Sincerity, Law and Gospel, Beauty and Pragmatism—I could go on... Read more
[Make your true love build you a bookshelf, that’s the main way.] Well, there you are, you old lovely blog! How bout a dust off to see if we even know each other. Let’s see, I think it is Friday, which means we should do 7 Thoughts About Some Things. In this case, that thing is going to be Rachel Hollis, because what better way to spend your holiday than listening to Girl Wash Your Face and Girl Stop Apologizing.... Read more
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