I’m sitting on the couch with the TV on and my laptop open. I check my Facebook page, my school email, my home email, my blog dashboard. None of this is important. I check again. In the other room, my husband Lon sits at the dining room table which serves as his home office. HeContinue reading “Homo Incurvatus in Se”
Category Archives: Love thy neighbor
Good. Clean. Fun.
I must begin this post with a confession: I’m not a shopper. I don’t keep up with fashion trends. I have two pair of adult high heels, one of which I got for my rehearsal dinner 26 years ago. If I do find myself in a gift store, I can’t summon a single name ofContinue reading “Good. Clean. Fun.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sometimes we just need to laugh at ourselves. This video should help. It’s a classic dinner table scene from the comic satire I HEART Huckabees. I think you’ll recognize a lot of the faces. As we gather around the table this week, let’s remember to be thankful for all the different points of view thatContinue reading “Happy Thanksgiving!”
Don’t believe everything you hear on TV
A friend posted a wonderful article this week on what she calls the 1% media spin on Christians. If we are to believe what we hear on TV (or in the blogsphere), Christians are essentially an angry, self-righteous, narrow, finger-wagging mob that seems oddly concerned with amassing money for themselves while withholding it from theContinue reading “Don’t believe everything you hear on TV”
Funeral etiquette
The beautiful matriarch of a wonderful family I knew growing up passed last week. She had been struggling with cancer and, as a woman of faith, was ready to go. The services were held in the Catholic church in Brentwood where she had been a member all of her adult life. Her five grown childrenContinue reading “Funeral etiquette”
Heather Choate Davis 