This morning I was walking on the treadmill while checking in with my boys via Tivo.
I’m no fan of Barry Manilow, but he was on the Colbert Report on Monday, and he and Stephen sang a duet. During Stephen’s bit I noticed that the treadmill had slowed way down. I looked down at the cardio monitor and sure enough, my heart rate had spiked.
I’m just sayin’.
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One of C’s chores is to feed the cats in the morning. This involves pouring the excess stale food from the bowl into the trash can. This has been made a little more difficult in recent weeks because we’ve put a gate between the kitchen and dining room, where the bowls are kept, and she can only carry one bowl at a time. The other day I heard C pour the leftover food from one bowl into another. R said, “Yes, she realized that she could pour the food into one bowl and carry it in rather than make two trips.”
Granted, I can carry two bowls at once, but HOW many years have we had these cats and not made that connection?
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While we’re on the topic of working smart, I am resuming teaching Sunday School this Sunday, and a few weeks ago I found myself saying to R, “While my kids are young, I am vowing only to teach from a curriculum.” It was one of those extroverted moments in which the thought didn’t exist until it came out of my mouth, but the moment it did I thought, Yes. I love teaching, and I like coming up with my own stuff, but I was not loving the late night cram sessions, trying to synthesize content from a bunch of different books. Not gonna do it. This felt like a very positive step toward mental health.
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I’ve heard people have already been camping out for the hot new toys–Extreme Tickle Me Elmo and the latest video game system which I can’t even remember the name of.
Get.
A.
Life.
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Twice this past week the divine miss m slept 7 p.m.-6:30 a.m. without waking. Last night she woke twice. SO inconsistent!
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Yesterday was supposed to be the day that my poem would be published on the online literary magazine written by and for mothers. But they still have not updated their poetry section. Ah well.
I also finished my “audition” piece for Christian Mainline Magazine and they will get back to me later in the month.
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Specifically for the Presbies:
A got a call from an editor of Presbyterian Outlook, who got my name from a friend of a friend. They are wanting to broaden their readership to a younger generation in the church and are exploring, among other things, an online presence. He was calling me because “I’m told you’ve done some work with blogs and building networks of people online and so forth.” I haven’t had a chance to call him back yet.
My initial thought is that the issue with the Outlook isn’t format but content. I’m a big believer in the mission of the Outlook–an independent source of news about the denomination–but it has a very stodgy feel to it.
So, fellow Presbyterians, if you read the Outlook, why? And if you don’t, why not?
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Short answer about the Outlook- may sound silly, but I don’t read it because of access. I did read it in seminary, when it seemed to just be around everywhere, and I did read it when I worked in a church, because it was around, but now that I am home, I never see a copy of it.
Outlook…We don’t subscribe, since we subscribe to Presbyterians Today. I do read that, even though I know it’s in-house.
Updated to add: I have forwarded discreet iquiries to Messrs. Colbert and Stewart to determine if either has a gay brother. I have offered matrimonial terms, sight unseen. I may have to make similiar inquiries of Mr. Olbermann.
My first thought, on seeing the entry title, was “What will Stephen Colbert say?”
RE the Outlook–I too read it in seminary because it was around everywhere and was delivered to my mailbox an excessive number of times per month.
Now I haven’t seen one in over a year.
I think it has a lot of potential, if only it didn’t read like it was written by dead white guys. You Go With the Making It Better By Being Young and Female.
I think I am weird… no comments from the peanut gallery please. I love reading The Outlook. I subscribe to it and read it as soon as it comes in. Granted, the church pays for it through my Professional Allowance. But I think it is good. I don’t think I fit in with my generation very well. I would much rather have it on paper then read it on-line.
I read the Outlook online every few weeks or so. I agree that it has a slightly stodgy feel to it.
I’m with stodgy- I read it because I think it presents things somewhat fairly… I wish there were a publication that were slighty more left but not too left that it is assumed to be left…
I’ve read the Outlook for several years. It does have a stodgy feel to it, but with Jack Haberer now as editor they are trying to change it up. Do you remember Jack from your days down here? He was the pastor at Clear Lake PC.
Have you checked out the online version? You can leave comments on the articles that are added to it like a blog. I read the online version when Presbyweb alerts me to it so sometimes I read their articles first on the web.
We subscribe to Outlook, I alternately get mad at it and think it is useful so I guess it is somewhat balanced. Of course we are of that “stodgy” generation! But I would love to have your words as a part of their voice!
I’ve been reading the Outlook online for a while now. The only printed copies that I’ve read were at my father-in-law’s house. While the online version may be called stodgy, what I like about it is its no-nonsense format, and easy to read font.
The Manilow-Colbert show was a keeper. They write the songs.
And about the Outlook: yes, it’s stodgy-feeling. But I’d read it if you wrote for it.
I haven’t read it since my one year free subscription ran out, so 12 years?
Yeah, camping out for the Nintendo Wii, although if all goes to plan, we will all be playing with my freshly purchased on come t-giving.
I’ve read the OUTLOOK every week (well, they don’t publish every week of the year…)since Seminary. I skip the Sunday school lessons. I fell in love with J.Barrie Shepherd’s poetry and writing through the Outlook. I know many of the authors in real life.
I think the OUTLOOK is fair in it’s reporting. I did not like the “Why Stay” issue. Made me anxious.
You’d be great “young blood”
I peruse The Outlook when it comes in - starting in the classifieds. I find it occasionally helpful, but more often like it has nothing to do with the ministry I am involved in.