“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Terrible Tuesday: Springtime in Texas
Yesterday the low was 42, the high was 88. Today, the low is 32, the high will be 59. Welcome to springtime in Texas where you start the day with a coat and gloves and end up in your sandals and shorts. Links! Astronauts. Are. Awesome. (It’s Cracked, so standard disclaimer applies, although this one’s […]
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Some joy for your Monday
The trees are starting to bloom and you know what that means…allergy season! Oh, and spring. I love spring but the allergies are awful. Even our dog has seasonal allergies, and his meds cost more than the rest of us put together. Bless his heart. So how’s about some joy on this glorious Monday morning? […]
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Engaging the Culture, part 2: Becoming storytellers
A couple of weeks ago, I looked at the question of what it means to engage the culture. I proposed that, if we want to be shapers of culture, we must tell great stories. The current cultural landscape seems not only to have abandoned almost every virtue that Christians hold dear but to have abandoned God […]
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Tales of Texas
On this day in 1836, Texas declared it’s independence from Mexico while Travis and Bowie and the other defenders were besieged at the Alamo, which would fall 4 days later. They were less than 2 months from securing the independence they declared. While Texans tend to talk slow (well, depending on the region), the story […]
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Happy Sequester Day!
By now, even the most politically oblivious has heard the word “Sequester” and rumblings that these “spending cuts” could be the worst thing ever since ever. To prove the point, ICE released hundreds of illegal immigrants, the Pentagon is canceling the deployment of an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, and thousands of federal workers […]
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An Amoral Education
The outrage du jour is news from a small Texas town of shenanigans going on in the local high school: students dressing up in burkas, calling the 9/11 terrorists “freedom fighters”, and the Tea Party patriots (of 1773 — not the new guys) terrorists. I saw the story posted on facebook by several of my […]
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Terrible Tuesday, I’m not dead yet!
I am however so tired I want to crawl under the table and weep. This is one of those dirty little secrets they don’t tell you when you start homeschooling: February is the worst month. It seems to drag on forever, somebody (or everybody) always gets sick, the weather is miserable, and you start all […]
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Irreplaceable
There are a handful of people in all of human history that are truly irreplaceable, that without them things most likely would have gone horribly, tragically wrong. Odds are you aren’t one of those people. You, while no doubt competent and wonderful, are not irreplaceable. The only place you are irreplaceable is in the life […]
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Terrible Tuesday, the beginning of crazy season
Yesterday was the first softball practice of the season, thus kicking off the time of year commonly known as “AAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!” It’s the straw that broke the schedule’s back. On the way back from practice, I was discussing with Sprite survival strategies and just when I thought we’d figured it out, she said, “But mom, what […]
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Presidential Wit and Wisdom
Forty-four Forty-three* men have held the office of President of the United States, and although the quality has varied, they’ve all managed to say at least something wise or witty. So I give you Presidential Quotes! (*President Obama is number 44 because Cleveland grabbed two, non-consecutive spots. Greedy.) 1. “Government is not reason; it is […]
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