Unexpected Guests

Sunday evening, Jif noticed Biscuit staring intently out the sliding glass door in the kitchen, with his nose pressed to the glass.
“What’s he looking at?” Jif wondered.
“Probably himself,” I offered. In addition to being a VBD, he has sometimes demonstrated signs of being a NVBD (Not Very Bright Dog).
Then LG discovered what Biscuit [...]

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Sunday Post

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller
Mark 12:28-31

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WTF: The Musical

Today I went for my second visit to the new toxicdoc/new rollogist (she does both!). She’s the head of the COWS in MEDICINE. (That’s Center for Obscure and Weird Stuff.) I wasn’t expecting this, but they did another nerve conduction study. Owwww. This was not as bad as the [...]

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Folie a Deux

My brother, Mike, and I spent about three days last week completely flustered, paranoid, doubting our own sanity (even more than usual) and doubting the sanity and common decency of our own family (even more than usual).
Mike left me a voicemail one day saying, “I just got a call from [cousin] Linda. [...]

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Sunday Post

“Imagination is a good thing to have, because without it, life can be pretty tough sometimes.” — a little girl on the news, in line for the Harry Potter book
Colossians 1:16-17
I also want to say, rest in peace, Tammy Faye [Bakker] Messner. I lived and went to college near the whole PTL Club/Heritage [...]

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“I’m Very Pleased and Scared to Be Here”

The last movie I saw in a theater was “Happy Feet,” until tonight, when I saw Hairspray. I haven’t seen the musical, but I loved the original ’80s movie. I must admit when I heard they were doing a new one, I was not amused. I thought the first one was perfect. [...]

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Spreading It

Some craziness has gone on at work lately, reminding me once again that working with mental health professionals is no guarantee of working with mentally healthy professionals. I’m reminded of something therapist and author Thom Rutledge said at a seminar once, “People do not go into the mental health field because they’re thinking, I [...]

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Oh, no I di’int just say that!

I recently read a post at Vajana’s, about her “foot-in-mouth disease,” that brought back a couple of flashbacks from my own and others’ bouts with that illness. (Although truthfully, hers take the cake; nobody dies or ends up in the ER with mine.)
When LG was about to celebrate her first birthday, the little playgroup [...]

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Sunday Post

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.” –Arlo Guthrie
John 12:46
Oh, and I just remembered something I wanted to share with you. This past week, as I was out visiting, I came across Old Hoss, making perfect sense (I know; I couldn’t believe it either!). Worth reading.

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Provocative Television

Have you seen that TV commercial for the home pregnancy test that says, “The most sophisticated piece of technology you will ever pee on…”?
Is it just me, or do you take that as a challenge to find another, more sophisticated piece of technology to pee on?
(There appear to be some doubters in [...]

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