Top ten reasons why the reverendbaby did not come on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day:
10. Deference to her Lord and Savior.
9. Mother did not have access to a donkey, or a need to travel to her husband’s town of origin for a census.
8. Decided that Christmas dinner—ham with brown sugar/mustard glaze, wild rice pilaf with […]

it used
to be quite
the specimen,
if i may say so:
a shapely oval,
not too deep,
pierce-able,
in fact. but now,
alas, the whole
topology’s changed:
a round gaping hole that
exposes a fleshy pink core
where i was bound, tethered
to my mother for dark months
’til at last i broke free; and now
i ponder this peculiar mountain
zenith, this reminder that my
body is not mine anymore.
we are […]

Ah, evenings. Dinner’s done; I can hear mommy’s meal percolating away, digesting nicely… wonderful white noise to accompany my evening nap, while she sits and does whatever quiet thing she does all evening. Then she will lay down for her own sleep, at which time I will be refreshed, full of energy and ready for […]

There’s a place out on the internets where people play a game with movie titles–change (or eliminate) one letter of a title to come up with a totally different film.
For example:
Mystic Liver — friendship, revenge and organ meats gone horribly wrong
or
American Lie: The George W. Bush story. (Don’t send me letters; I didn’t make it […]

You find yourself walking down a long hallway in reverendmother’s blog. Reverendmother is nowhere to be found… ah yes! She has left town for a few days.
At the end of the hallway are two doors, one on each side. You peek inside each room.
The first room is a child’s playroom, decorated with cheerful primary colors […]

Time for something fun.
Given the following:
Tomorrow is our 20-week ultrasound, during which we can find out the sex of the baby, assuming he/she isn’t overly modest, or ornery;
When I first suspected I was pregnant, I had an incredibly strong BOY vibe, which has since subsided;
This pregnancy has been similar in every way (eerily similar) to […]

…and others.
Courtesy of Matthew, this is a series of screen captures from the Chinese version of Revenge of the Sith. The original English was translated into Chinese characters at some point, then the Chinese was translated back into English subtitles, which is what you
see on the screen shots. Hilarity ensues, including some misspellings that are […]

Take it from me, the voice of experience:
In your excitement over the new Harry Potter book, do not, I repeat, do not try to best your friends and loved ones by partaking of the Earthworm flavored Bertie Bott’s.
And as for Rotten Egg, just put down the candy and walk slowly away from the table.
The latter […]

Reverendmother’s pickled okra fetish makes you go yeeeeeech? Maybe it runs in the family. RM’s handing the keys over to the Mr., aka R, for a little guest blog. By request.
PBPMS: A Recipe
This is a family tradition that has been grossing out friends and loved ones for years. However, those brave enough to try it […]

Three years ago I took an amazing class called “The Preacher and the Poet.” We read a lot of poetry, played around with sermons, and wrote silly impromptu creative writing assignments. This one’s been on my mind lately; we had to write a real or fictional story of a family member meeting someone famous.
PastorG is […]

Well I finished the scarf today, and wrapped it in a piece of flip chart paper, taped together with mailing labels (which I looped and hid under the flaps of the wrapping–otherwise, unsightly), and tied with the last stray bit of the Eros yarn. All in all I was proud of that little bit […]

As part of my public awareness campaign about the joys of knitting, I want to make the following item crystal clear: when you see someone knitting in a public place or a large gathering, it doesn’t mean they are oblivious to you. In fact, they are probably able to focus just as well (if not […]

Matthew has an intermittent series of treatises on the virtues of the Big Three trilogy movies… Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and the Matrix. (I know I know, one of these things is not like the other…)
I want to add a category to the debate:
Best Use of Hair in a Trilogy.
The Matrix movies use […]

I
am
so
so
so
so
so
so
cookie
cookie
cookie
starts with
C
so
so
so
so
so
sick
of the
Sesame Street
CD
in the
car
but I
tip
the
mirror down
and see a
smile
so
I
deal.
Another poem about the rear-view mirror, written in a few seconds. Apparently I have a thing about the rear view mirror.