Sex, movies, and fart noises.             Read more

How to teach, nurture, and get to know your kids, and let them know you like them, without actually changing your routine. Read more

All right, there’s not actually any way I can pass off this styrofoam replica of a golden fertility idol meant to resemble this one from Raiders of the Lost Ark as remotely suitable for an All Saints’ Day party.  It does hold special meaning for me, though, because as I studied the above photo intently while jabbing at a ball of styrofoam with a spoon, I noted the exact moment when I began to freak out about giving birth.  (Yes,... Read more

Aw, nuts.  It’s our fourteenth wedding anniversary, I can’t find the wedding album to scan a picture in, and all the things I keep saying keep sounding stupid. I love you, Damien, and I always will.  (There, that sounded okay.) Read more

Today you can see my interview with Sean Finnegan, director of the award-winning documentary Out Of the Darkness.   The film wasn’t what I expected:  they didn’t try to make it interesting by showing censored or fleeting images of porn; and it wasn’t a tirade or a doom-and-gloom litany of devastating statistics.  Instead, it shows the human side of pornography, with interviews with a former porn star and a former porn addict, among others.  Good stuff, keeps your attention.  I... Read more

In general, when you’re going to make a list, there should be at least ten elements.  Or, if you are in a hurry, five is respectable. Two, however, is just pathetic.  I gotta start going to bed earlier.  Maybe in the mean time, you can head over to the Register and give some examples of the falsest statements you’ve ever heard.  There must be more than two! Read more

This one’s for people who aren’t really tempted to start using contraception, but can’t help thinking about how easy life would be. The alternate title didn’t quite make it to the final edit, but because I love you, here’s a trailer: Read more

Today’s post at the Register:  C. S. Lewis to the rescue again! Which reminds me:  if you haven’t read The Screwtape Letters, you should!  More startling and helpful ideas about how the human soul works than you can shake a stick at, and so entertaining and accessible.  It ought to be required reading for confirmation classes. Read more

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