Saturday, October 26, 2013

Accessing Ideas Packed in Like Sardines, Except They're Stuck

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I read a lot. I read so much that you know my head is absolutely brimming with ideas. But I can't always access them. When I first rea...
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Monday, September 9, 2013

My Grandmother's Kitchen Table, with a Lazy Susan in the Middle

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I was sitting in Sunday School, sipping decaff coffee from a paper cup, when I unintentionally visualized a cigarette being tapped into an a...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

What Happened, Part 3

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It is news to me when he tells me that the swelling in our dog's head has gotten worse instead of better. For two days I had been say...
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Monday, September 2, 2013

What Happened Last Week, Part 2: The Cockroach Attacks

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I realize I'm risking TMI, but I'll spare you the less necessary details. I'm in the bathroom, and I'm stuck there, when the...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

What All Happened Last Week, Part 1

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We had a rough week last week, and I talked and explained, both in person and on Facebook, until I was tired of talking about it, but I'...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Mysterious animals

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My dog. Yesterday I'm in the kitchen working on something. I don't remember what. Allie, my dog who almost died last week, walks...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Napping in the middle of the day

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Okay, so you know how they call a person who likes to get up early in the morning a lark, and a person who likes to stay up late at night an...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Language: I love it; my husband doesn't. There's so much more about language that I'd really like to learn.

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Nobody talks like me, except that I actually do. I use words like ameliorate, or imbued. I look up the meanings sometimes when I'm not s...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

A Totally Biased Review of Nancy Pearcey's book, Total Truth

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10/30/14***I'm going to have to revisit this book now that I've read Saving Leonardo. There were times, particularly in chapter two ...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

If I were a habitual drinker, I would have given it up immediately.

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I started a fire in my kitchen last night while trying to make the kids popcorn. Wanna know how I did it? I forgot that you never want to ...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

"I love technology, but not as much as you, you see. But still, I love technology..."

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Don't you just hate the way that technology has nurtured our natural impatience? I have been pleased to note that my family's less t...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

A Work in Progress: Schooling, Teaching, figuring this thing out.

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We're already a whole month into the new year and I haven't told you all the things I want to tell you. So I'm going to dive r...
Friday, December 21, 2012

It Works, but Not Immediately--and this is what so often keeps me from thoroughly enjoying poetry (and philosophy too, for that matter)

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I am astonished this morning. I plan to respond more to James Sires book, How to Read Slowly , more later, but this morning I cannot hold ba...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Seasons...perhaps we anticipate a season of travel without quite realizing we are doing so...

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This is a blog post, not a Facebook update. I realized it three sentences in. I don't always catch it. I always said that Tuscaloosa w...
Monday, December 17, 2012

The Problem with Memoir is...

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You know what the problem with reading spiritual memoirs is, don't you? By the time you reach the end of the book you feel like you know...