Oh DEAR! Someone Save This Man From Himself!

This post is directly related to the one beneath it. First you must understand that before I met my husband one of the men I wanted to marry was Howard Keel as he appeared in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. I love big men, large and strapping like trees. Howard was a big man with [...]

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Beat That Dead Horse

Every now and then I get a song in my head that I can’t let go, and I consume covers of it until I have a playlist chock-full of every singer in the world doing their interpretation of it. Past songs suffering this abuse at my hands include Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Bob Dylan’s Tangled Up [...]

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Every Day A Little Morte

Last night as I lay in bed I started thinking about the twists and turns my life has taken over time. It occurred to me over Christmas that I only had thirty years until I was my parents’ age, and that I’d already been married for twenty. When I looked at thirty years as the [...]

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Farewell And Adieu, You Ladies Of Spain

I was gonna write a long blog post about the top books I read this year. Then I was gonna write a short post about how much I hate the abomination that is Stargate Universe. Then I decided that I was going to install my new copy of Civ V. And that means that I’ll [...]

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Jesus Was My Cudgel

Via Wally Campbell I have encountered yet another version of the whole “Jesus Was An Anchor Baby (In Yo’ FACE, Righty!)” meme. Sigh. These are always well-meaning, in that they want us to realise that we should treat people better and guide our lives with Christian principles if we claim to adhere to that faith. [...]

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It’s Not Digging Ditches

Writing… I was over at one of my favourite homes-away-from-home on the web, and Aunt B. was talking about the difficulty of the writing process and how the issues she’s dredged up while writing a particular chapter of her novel are clashing with other issues in her real life. Whenever anyone talks about writing professionally–and [...]

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Weird Pet Peeves List #532

We’ll call it #532 even though I bet I’ve compiled such a list more times than that. But that sounds like a good number. Besides which, 5 is the sum of 3+2. So okay. Christmas albums with “new” songs on them.   Seriously, people.  The world likes about 35 standard hymns and seasonal songs.   [...]

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Christian Doctors Needed

Over on Facebook I see I’ve got a status update from Samaritan’s Purse. (That name will come in handy in just a second…) The update begins like this: URGENT: Christian doctors and nurses are urgently needed as the cholera outbreak in Haiti grows. **We will cover volunteer expenses, including airfare, for those who can serve [...]

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One Of Those Wishes I Should Have Been More Careful Making

My mom used to take us to this lady in our church who ran a beauty salon out of her basement. Neither my mom nor I were much for the whole beauty regimen so it softened the blow somewhat to go to Ann’s for the haircuttings and perms of my childhood. Ann was always amused [...]

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Thick As A Brick

It’s Friday night and I’m at home in my basement looking out at the Christmas lights across the valley from my office. Jethro Tull is lilting out the speakers in that weird flutey maze of sound they have. To me many of Tull’s songs sound a bit like Christmas music, oddly enough. Maybe it’s the [...]

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