Just said goodbye to Gmommy and Grandpa D, who visited over the weekend. We had a nice time—went to Suburban Lake Park for a picnic yesterday afternoon. Light breeze, lots of barefoot people. Today we went to the zoo. (Don’t tell the church… er, it was comp time.)
It was a busy weekend for me aside […]

1. Wearing: black knit pants, grey long-sleeved shirt, black sandals
2. Pondering: how to write a sermon, get C to the dentist, and tidy up the house for Gmommy and Grandpa D’s visit this weekend
I’m also pondering the fact that C is watching Sesame Street and suddenly exclaimed, “This is my favorite part!” It was […]

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We had a big meeting at church on Saturday so C&M spent the night at MaDear’s. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as last time. M was up throughout the night for some reason. Could’ve been teeth or the teething fever she had; she might have gotten overtired from only having two 30-minute naps the […]

Here are some thoughts after watching episodes 4-8: White Rabbit, House of the Rising Sun, The Moth, Confidence Man. Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen them.
I am still too lazy to look up John Locke the philosopher. But I will say, I’m interested in the scrape that runs vertically over and under Locke’s eye. […]

We’re in trouble.

Tell us about five people, places, or things that have brought surprising, healing joy into your life.

Both of my children bring unexpected joy, but I remember M’s ultrasound as a particular joyful surprise. We’d always planned to have two children and I somehow figured I’d get one of each. So when the technician said, “Ah! […]

Quotidian Grace’s recent post has me wondering whether every seminary played Buzzword Bingo, or was that unique to Crusty ol’ Theological Seminary?
A few choice selections:

over against
living in the tension
diversity
community
hegemony

I call upon my fellow alumni of CTS to offer some additional examples.
I’m not sure whether we ever officially played Buzzword Bingo, but we did play a […]

Wow, the idea of “time” is enough of an interest of mine that it warrants its own blog category. And the title “it’s about time” has been used at least once before on these pages.
Anyway, what I pitched to the editors of Denominational Magazine is a series of ten articles exploring different scriptural perspectives on […]

After saying this:
I heard a spokesman from the National Gun Owners Association say yesterday that if people were allowed to carry concealed weapons wherever they went, it would serve as a deterrent to shooters.
Of course in this situation, the person ultimately turned the gun on himself… so someone please tell me why that argument isn’t […]

I don’t want to talk about It anymore.
I don’t really want to hear about It either.
Predictable people are lining up in predictable ways, predictably.
The dots that follow are not in ignorance of the pain; indeed, I can’t even listen to the news without crying; this is just an effort to think about something else.

I’m so […]

as i sat and clicked in the turn lane,
a funeral procession trudged by,
all grim headlights, wipers flinging the rain,
and i thought: someday,
at some family reunion, egg salad and matching shirts,
they’ll look back on this day; they’ll say,
remember sweet uncle’s funeral?
whew! i’ll never forget that day—
the gusts that blew our coats open,
whipped our legs with […]

So I received a $100 check for the little piece I wrote for World Famous Newspaper. It’s not the first time I’ve received a check for something I wrote, but it’s the first time the check has come from an entity that the average person has probably heard of. (i.e. Homiletics Magazine is not exactly […]

R & I saw our first-ever episode of American Idol this week—I think the whole Sanjaya thing is hilarious. Besides, he gets props for singing in Spanish and on key. And singing right into the camera—pretty ballsy.
I don’t think we’ll be regulars of the show, but at least now we know what the fuss is […]

This one’s mine. Duh.

1. Are you a regular patron of dentists’ offices? Or, do you go
a) faithfully, as long as you have insurance, or
b) every few years or so, whether you need it or not, or
c) dentist? what is this “dentist” thing you speak of?
I’m somewhere between “regular” and a). During seminary and the first […]

Laptops are great things—connect with the world and your job without leaving your bed.
I’m totally off codeine after last evening’s unpleasantness. But Motrin is working fine. The only pain I feel in my mouth is a sore spot on my tongue from a sharp corner of the mouth guard. By the end of today I […]