“Most women can’t be trophy wives, but you know … maybe you’re a participation trophy.” — Steward Allen Clark, Baptist Pastor… of course it was a Baptist Pastor. On Sunday I was pulled aside, “I have a sermon topic for you… tell all the women to quit wearing sweatpants and lose weight!” The absurdity of […]
Read more "Participation Trophy"Meg and I graduated from SBU, a conservative Christian college. She was an English Education major (and Theater/Communications Major — amazing lady!) and one of her professors was lamenting the effects of modern children’s literature. She specifically mentioned a few books kids should avoid, including Harry Potter. The Sorcerer’s Stone had just been printed in […]
Read more "Potter and the Enneagram"Stiff and sore, I slowly got dressed as Meg laughed, “yo… GA… man!” Last week Tim invited me and Meg to join him and Tamara in a 30 day yoga challenge called “Breathe“. I had never done any yoga. Honestly all I knew is that it involves stretches with weird names and, that naysayers claim, […]
Read more "“yo GA man”"My newsfeed included an article on the results of a “World View” poll (YouGov poll, Table 2 “World View”). The question was a study in extremes: Which comes closest to your view?: Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants and our priority should be to protect ourselves. It’s a big, beautiful world, […]
Read more "Extremes"The struggle of poverty is evident in major events: repo men and eviction notices. But it is also small things that weigh people down… Our house came with a 40 gallon water heater. This worked fine 10 years ago for our family of four. But now our family of six, with girls learning to shave […]
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