Truck Spills Two Tons of Pig Heads

Comcast internet news has the best headlines. Like the title of this post. The headlines are so good/bad that I never read the articles they entitle, because, really, the article couldn’t possibly be as good/bad as the headline, which tells me all I need to know. “Letterman Rips Into O’Reilly.” The visual from that is [...]

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Trick or Treat!

I can already hear you PETA types, “Oh, poor thing has no eyeholes again!” Yea, yea, I know. He has an appointment coming up at the Dog Wash soon. Believe me, with the way my hands work these days, you don’t want me near his eyes with scissors. And frankly, a seeing-eye dog (that is, [...]

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Photo by Squirl Sunday Post ~ "It is good to ha…

Photo by Squirl
Sunday Post ~ “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
Psalm 143:10-11
file under: &Sunday Post

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A Difference of Opinion

Met with a graduate student that I’m supervising. I have always had regard for my students ranging from love to respectful acceptance. This one, I may have to smack. A priest from India, getting a counseling doctorate. In our supervision session, he presents a marital therapy case in which the problem, as he sees it, [...]

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Sunday Post ~ a theme: Failure and Forgivene…

Sunday Post ~ a theme: Failure and Forgiveness
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“. . . you have as many clean slates as you want with me.” – [...]

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The Lingerie Nazi: Bringing Sexy Back

The weather is definitely changing here, and the nip in the air has me assessing my bedtime attire for its warmth and snuggliness. It also reminds me of a story from this time last year, when I went to update my intimate wardrobe at a local lingerie store. Not the one with “Secretions” in the [...]

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Sunday Post ~ a theme: Temptation (talk among…

Sunday Post ~ a theme: Temptation (talk amongst yourselves)
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” – William Butler Yeats
“We usually know what we can do, but temptation [...]

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Pardon the Intruption

As anyone who’s ever been a parent — or a kid — knows, sometimes certain family members behave badly. They drive other family members crazy, with their not listening, and their interrupting, and their going on and on and not really saying anything helpful, and sometimes they yell, which is just rude. These certain family [...]

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Dunk’d!

Talking to William about “dunking” in the comments on the previous post, I was reminded of the time I learned of my religious heritage on my father’s side. A while back, as part of preparation for a family reunion, my Aunt Weezie sent me a booklet in which a cousin had written the genealogy of [...]

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I wonder if NBA players have this problem . . .

LG just had her “evaluation” for placement on a basketball team (although, since Jif is assistant-coaching, we kinda know what team she’ll be on). She plays on a church-affiliated, inter-denominational league, in which the emphasis is heavily on sportsmanship, character-building, and such. No demon-parents screaming at kids, refs, etc. In fact, this is an excerpt [...]

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