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The Impotence of Worry

I have joined a Yahoo! group for US families adopting from Ethiopia. My reasons are to gather information from folks about their experiences. I’ve gleaned a few hard useful facts that will help us ease our child’s journey (when that moment arrives), but for the most part, this group appears dedicated to assuaging the worries […]

Did I Say I Was Leaving?…

Okay, I’m a little dramatic.
Blake is doing better, and I’m beginning to come out of my self-imposed exile inside myself to blog again. I feel really stupid. The last couple of days, I’ve had the “I’ll have to blog about that tonight” experience, but I didn’t because I said I was closing the blog. […]

Stilted by Sin #6

Envy. It’s the sixth of the seven deadly sins. I have a big issue with it, and it swallows me up at times more than any of the others.
Or, sure, I can eat a few too many cookies sometimes. And I’m no stranger to sloth and wrath, but, envy is the thing that keeps me […]

For Now, Some Peace

I made some noise with the school about consistency with the SBIT plan (see this post). Lo and behold — all of a sudden my son is not being sent home or sent out of the classroom to the principal’s office. What changed?
I was told that sometimes kindergartners are different after the winter break. They […]

The Karmic Weight of Christmas

Do you feel it? It’s the weight of Christmas bearing down on your psyche. In my case, the weight of guilt over just who made these items, what their lives are like, why I’m buying them, or in most cases, not buying them. I can’t afford to shop at the ever-so-landed-gentry Downtown Mall, and I’m […]

Lowball Bid or BUY IT NOW???

Lowe’s Home Improvement stores recently felt obligated to issue an apology. They called the artificial Christmas trees in their catalogues “Family Trees.” This caused outrage by folks who argue to Keep Christ in Christmas. I remember the refrain Keep Christ in Christmas from my childhood. Then, it was based in using the term “Xmas.” I […]

Christmas: Santa, Kubota, and The Inflatable God

This weekend has had me visiting the local shopping mall (the Fashion Square Mall) twice. Once was for Santa’s first night. The other was this evening’s drive-in movie in the parking lot, featuring “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Polar Express.”
Last night, the Santa’s workshop setup in the mall was flanked by two Kubota tractors, […]

Sex Addiction is NOT Synonymous with Gay

Larry Craig. The whole story has devolved from it’s opening low point to the usual discussion where “gay” and “homosexual” are being equated with perversion. The public just LOVES the mens’ bathroom thing. It’s dirty and embarassing — just the way America feels about sex in general.
I saw a blog that equated this downfall […]

Old Wineskins

I am keenly aware that my minister links to my blog from his, The Farthest Shore. As such, I feel kind of hesitant at times to express some of my thoughts about faith. But, sometimes I feel that being an agitator, and making folks uneasy, comes so easily to me that it must have something […]

The Not-Eternal Me Possibility

I was driving Blake home last night from Fredericksburg to Charlottesville. We had spent the day visiting our old neighborhood, and he had a chance to play with his first, and still only, “girlfriend,” Brianna. He fell asleep in the car with an old iBook on his lap, watching Monsters, Inc. He had a wonderful […]