The Christian Smart Ass (or, Why Nobody Wants to Sit by Me in Heaven)

I used to belong to a book group at my old church. We read books of all sorts, and discussed how they did (or didn’t) relate to our Christian faith. One night - I don’t remember what book we were discussing - the author introduced the topic: do we love Jesus?
Presbyterians are a [...]

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And my Perfect Post award goes to…

Great minds think alike. So it should be no surprise that both I and Owlhaven gave a June Perfect Post award to Antique Mommy for her Ode to Mary Tyler Moore.
If you aren’t familiar with the Perfect Post awards, it’s a little scheme dreamed up by Lucinda and MommaK at Petroville.com to [...]

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Second Children

Sweetpea when she was a newborn.
“Meevle-effle-flumpf,” Sweetpea said yesterday. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds advanced.
When Sweetpea was born, I worried that I would not be as good a mother to her as to JellyBean. The time alone you get with your first baby is unrepeatable. Every baby [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

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The Firstborn by Christopher Fry

The summer before I started grad school I decided to read Shakespeare’s plays. Somehow I had missed them in school, and I was a little embarrassed that I could get so much education without ever reading his work. I find reading plays difficult. In narrative I have pictures painted for me; in [...]

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