Well, the post title (Shelving our Scotties) grabbed me initially, but L.L. Barkat, the author of this HighCalling.org post, suggests something I don’t remember hearing before: that just because God has given me a gift, I’m not obligated to use it, now … or ever?
This has some relevance for one of the many holes [...]
I don’t know about you, but the news has struck me very heavily the last week or so. If you wanted data to support a thesis that America is circling the drain, there it was in abundance.
So, ’cause I got nothing else, here’s a good story about some baby ducklings. With pix!
In his [...]
Got a very lovely thank-you card today from my grandmother-in-law, whose 90th birthday we celebrated last weekend. This note, like many others of late, included a goodie from her extensive family archives.
I believe that she has kept every note, letter, or card she’s ever received, along with every newspaper clipping featuring a family member [...]
Tucker the Wonder Dog can’t stand up for very long these days, so grooming is very much a hit-or-miss proposition. I’ve taken to giving him a few swipes with the Furminator (such an awesome tool, absolutely worth its rather high price) anytime he’s lying about and I have nothing better to do.
Well, it would [...]
I’ve long been aware that there is tension between my mother-in-law and her mother, whose 90th birthday we just celebrated. As far as I can tell, this tension dates back roughly to my mother-in-law’s birth, so neither my spouse nor I is directly involved, but indirectly? You bet.
I wasn’t particularly aware [...]
Watch, astounded, as a man sings a crate full of boxer puppies to sleep in about thirty seconds.
I spotted this saying on a bumper sticker earlier today, and the spouse and I disagreed on the message. It struck me as rather arrogant (the implication being that the driver of course has plans for all his/her goals, and is therefore Better Than You), but it didn’t seem that way at all to [...]
If I hadn’t tested this myself this weekend, I would call it an urban legend. We had a family gathering at a place that is, apparently, rather plagued with flies in the summertime. One of the hosts said that they had heard that you can tack a gallon-sized Ziploc bag full of water [...]
I’m watching my mother deal with the fallout from some water damage done to her condo by an upstairs neighbor. I think I’ve finally isolated her conflict strategy, which bears an uncomfortably close relationship to my own. It goes something like this:
1. Experience an incursion of some kind.
2. Try to assure [...]
I enjoy reading the infrequently-updated Best of Craigslist partly because of the window it offers into the zeitgeist. One of the things that has puzzled me for awhile is the popularity of “etiquette lists,” written by commuters or grocery-store clerks or anyone who has a serious bone to pick with others’ public behavior, and [...]
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