The night after Halloween I found myself in a Cat in the Hat costume, reading “The Cat in the Hat” to a group of kindergarteners and first-graders. This was part of an effort by our elementary school to establish a “Family Reading Night,” which also featured a firefighter (who inexplicably failed to wear her [...]
I’ve written before about my uneasy relationship with online atheists — because of their feelings about me, I hasten to say, not because of my feelings about them. So it was a little balm to my heart to read the ineffable PeaceBang take on the topic, ostensibly as an etiquette question, but in reality [...]
Today was a day that I didn’t make it through the church service.
I might have known that I would come apart when I realized that the prelude was “Here I Am, Lord.” I have heard many of the RevGals speak wearily or scornfully about this hymn, but it has had a powerful impact on [...]
I picked this up at the library the other day, more or less on a whim. It is truly delightful. Spare and elegant, a good story, and lots of stuff about food! What’s not to like?
… but I suspect she is absolutely correct. Sigh.
If you’ve never read Dinosaur Comics, it’s the brainchild of Ryan North. The graphics are exactly the same every day, but the dialogue changes, and for some reason it cracks me up. Today it’s word geek jokes, which I adore. (Note that bold-faced dialogue coming from above the frame is God.) Last [...]
