Posts from the ‘Life’ Category
Brief, bitter complaint: Why do people feel like they have to have a TV set blaring away while they work out? Our complex has a little fitness room, and I’ve had to realize that I’m the weirdo for valuing silence as I move my muscles and bones about. Everyone else wants to hear a television set […]
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Here’s the essay I did for Melinda’s series of Orthodox artists and writers, My mother tells me that one of the real benefits that I offered to a weary parent (I was the last of four children) was that if you put me in a room with a pencil and paper, I could amuse myself […]
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Finally made it from there to here, from Kansas City, MO to Phoenix, AZ. So what have we learned? White Elephants on Parade Well, for one thing, it doesn’t matter how much you prepare for it — when you have to shift all your worldly goods worth shifting, it’s just appalling to notice how […]
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I don’t know quite why I feel the need to apologize when I haven’t posted in a while. It’s kind of a silly impulse, given that blogging is strictly optional to my life and has to be even more optional to my loyal reader(s). But I felt kind of bad when I realized that it […]
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Originally posted in 2008, this ode to the yellow seemed worth a re-run. Driving home from church, I kept noticing the banks of wild sunflowers at each new rise in the road. They surprise me every year: It’s too late for bunches and bunches of bright yellow sunflowers to appear in every gully, massing out […]
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I’m cat-sitting a friend whose place is really remote. Around here, what that means is that paved roads are a distant dream and gravel roads are deemed an affectation. And I’ve almost gotten used to the bouncy ride, and used to the part of it that goes through a cornfield, but I’m still not used […]
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Saw this on Mystagogy. Apparently Penn Jillette has written just what the public was clamoring for: Another cultural mandate for anti-religion. (Hooray! It had been WAY too long since Hitchens and Maher told everyone that civilization can’t move forward if people keep believing in God.) So Piers Morgan had him on his show and talked […]
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This is Greg’s first trip back home since he moved out to the new job in Phoenix. I was glad to be able to show off all the Missouri highlights in good weather, because it’s been oppressively hot (just like Phoenix, of course) and oppressively muggy (just like Missouri). But when we finished a little […]
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A little Thursday round-up, since none of these quite merits a post all its own: Global warming setback: polar bears might not be dying: — The scientist who made the polar bear the unofficial poster child from manmade global warming is on leave and being investigated for “scientific misconduct,’in part over the integrity of those findings. […]
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So I was working along on my computer this afternoon when the electricity suddenly just twinked off. How odd. I sat there for quite a few seconds just looking at the black screen. I wasn’t worried that the computer was broken, because I noticed without noticing that things were … different. They were … … quiet. […]
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