In, Not Of

This blog is written largely for a general audience, which means I try to stay away from the more inside-baseball aspects of Christianity. Somewhere in the Bible we are instructed to not air our dirty laundry of The Church in front of every one. Reading through the comments on an old blog entry here I [...]

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Full Up on the Hunger Games

I had sworn I wouldn’t read these, because I’d been told they had cannibalism. On the short list of things that freak me out (clowns, heights, the dentist), cannibalism is at the top. I can handle a lot of topics but anything to do with people eating other people makes me upset in a way [...]

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Father, Son & Holy Clive

“They’re reading us a book in SuperChurch!. And it’s about WITCHES. Mrs. Dubach said it was okay, though, because it’s a Christian book.” Despite the reassurances of Margo Dubach, my 10-year-old self was not entirely sure my parents–the same parents who forbade Bewitched and witch costumes at Halloween–would be on board with this new scheme. [...]

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Deep In The Hundred Acre Wood

I really and truly am content with my life and the way it has played out. But every now and then I will come across an item we bought in anticipation of the baby we were trying to have for years and years. There’s the Humphrey’s Corner lamp we got at Tuesday Morning, the anniversary [...]

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Just Like The Real Thing

In case you hadn’t picked up on it from reading a post here and there I need to be upfront and say that I love books. I think that writing is nearly God’s greatest gift to mankind, superceded only by our eternal souls and the salvation thereof. Libraries are hallowed places to me, where ideas [...]

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Running Ahead Of Superstition

For a few decades now I have been possessed of a bizarre superstition. I believe that how I spend the first day of a year will serve as a template for how the rest of that year will play out. I know it sounds odd to treat a day like a thesis statement for a [...]

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Cersei & Jaime Would’ve Gotten Away With It, Too, If It Weren’t For Those Meddling Kids!

So this is another week where my GoT Liveblog is delayed by my real life goings-on. I finally had the long-awaited (by me, at least) GoT viewing party. There were two dab-hand book fans in the room, one book initiate and one complete novice. And we burned through all six hours of show with meat [...]

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She’s 41, And Her Daddy Still Calls Her “Baby”

This is the last Friday that I’m 40. My birthday is Monday and I’m partially psyched. I always love my birthday, and wax rhapsodic about it. But a MONDAY birthday? Eh. That’s like having a colonoscopy on your wedding day. “Don’t worry, sweetie! You’ll get the bad stuff out of the way in the morning [...]

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Lesson ONE:

Never subscribe to a health magazine run by drug companies. All of their health tips are pulled off Wikipedia OR involve the drugs made by the company who runs it.

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Sports Night And The Value Of Escape

If you’d asked me ten years ago how I’d feel about having every episode of Sports Night available to watch whenever, wherever I wanted I would have been so enraptured you would have had to scrape me off the ceiling. I loved that show with its smart, savvy content and witty banter. Now it is [...]

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