One of my pet peeves about LG’s school is that they require a separate spiral-bound notebook for everything. No “5-subject” notebooks are allowed. And it wouldn’t be so bad if they used them all up, but they don’t. And it’s not just one for every different subject, it’s one for each new [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post on November 25, 2007 | 17 Comments »
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
Psalm 86:3-5
I Think There’s a Memo . . .
Posted in Can't Make This Stuff Up, Sharing on November 21, 2007 | 33 Comments »
that some generous, good-humored soul has sent around the world on my behalf, telling most everyone with whom I interact to say something absolutely absurd, just so I’ll have something to laugh and blog about. Take for instance, my efforts to comply with my SIL’s suggestion that I bring steamed shrimp for appetizers tomorrow:
Him: [...]
The Annual WWIT Turkey Trot
Posted in Kids Across the Hall, Sharing on November 19, 2007 | 25 Comments »
This post always gets a lot of searches this time of year. And truly, I can’t top it for a Thanksgiving offering, so I hereby make it a WWIT tradition, presented for the third year:
Across the hall from my office is what I believed to be a daycare center. Turns out, it is [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2007 | 13 Comments »
“One day [my] teacher, Frederick Wilkerson, asked me to read to him. I was twenty-four, very erudite, very worldly. He asked that I read from Lessons in Truth, a section which ended with these words: ‘God loves me.’ I read the piece and closed the book, and the teacher said, ‘Read it again.’ I pointedly [...]
Lonely
Posted in Partial Nudity, WTF Disease on November 15, 2007 | 46 Comments »
One of the toughest things about WTF Disease is the isolation of it — the doing it all by myself. If I said to someone, back in the day, “I have a kidney stone,” I would invariably get, “Oh, you poor thing, I had one of those back in ‘82 . . . ” [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post on November 11, 2007 | 17 Comments »
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” ~ Johannes A. Gaertner
Psalm 105:1-4
Put THAT in Your Hoochie Purse
Posted in Can't Make This Stuff Up, Family, Work on November 9, 2007 | 30 Comments »
LG and I sometimes enjoy watching “What Not to Wear.” Last weekend we watched as Stacy and Clinton busted some fashion-challenged woman on her “hoochie mama” wardrobe. Stacy would pick up an item, pronounce it “hoochie,” and then drop it into the show’s signature metal trash can.
I took up the charge, [...]
Sunday Post
Posted in Sunday Post on November 4, 2007 | 17 Comments »
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
Lamentations 3:21-23
Biscuit Friday ~ Time for Eyeholes
Posted in Biscuit on November 2, 2007 | 15 Comments »
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