“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Pushing through
After a week of house guests, followed by a field trip, I tried to start back with our regular schedule. That went about as well as could be expected. To top it off, after a week of gorgeous weather, it’s cold and rainy and I have a headache that feels like little men with sledge […]
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Terrible Tuesday: The month of ME!
Is everyone enjoying their April? My in-laws have been visiting from Minnesota for the past week and the weather has been gorgeous. They leave today and tomorrow it will be rainy with a high of 50. How very like April. “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and […]
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The great blog experiment, one month later
At the beginning of the month I challenged myself to blog every day. The basic premise is momentum. It’s easier to keep doing something if you’ve been doing something, or as Jerry Seinfeld said, “Don’t break the chain.” Put another way, it’s easier to do something when it’s habit. The only way to form a […]
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Christ is Risen!
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No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.*
When we were planning the move from Virginia to Texas, I scoped out the Dallas Aroboretum on the web as a replacement for our favorite flower places The U.S. Botanic Gardens and George Washington River Farm. That was in 2007. I took the girls once on a Girl Scout field trip and then, nothing. The […]
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Why do we call it good?
How is this good? Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and […]
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A new command
Today Christians celebrate Maundy Thursday, also called Holy Thursday. Maundy comes from the Latin word for mandatum, because on this day in Holy Week Jesus gave a new command to his disciples, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love […]
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Engaging the culture, part 4: Seeing real people
Everything is quick in our culture. We have shortcuts for everything, from cooking to communicating. Even getting to know people has become a simple endeavor. Enter appearance, occupation, socio-economic status, residence, tweets, and whatever interests you can glean in 30 seconds into a formula and voilà! You’ve got that person all sorted out, and you […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Houseguest Edition
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Stop me before I check out again!
My “books to be read” list is always rather long, but I try to keep the “books I’m currently reading” pile short, lest I get too distracted to finish any or all of them. But sometimes the beast has a mind of it’s own. In fact, I just reserved another book at the library today. […]
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