Perhaps we should all just accept that this blog, like so many others out there, has fallen into a state where it’ll be updated every few months, and each post will begin with an apology that it has been so long since the last post. (Who are we apologizing to, anyway? Does anybody even notice? [...]
My pastor in college once gave a sermon lamenting the slow downfall of Thanksgiving, a holiday with limited commercial appeal. Every year Thanksgiving gets squeezed a bit further as the demands of the “real” holiday season kick in ever earlier. I find myself getting a bit defensive on Thanksgiving’s behalf: it doesn’t have a lot [...]
Today, my sister and I are off to Guatemala for some serious vacationing, so my normally relentless writing pace is going to slow down for a brief period. Neither one of us speaks much (read: any) Spanish, so this ought to be fun! There’ll be pictures when I get back, though. That is, assuming my camera doesn’t [...]
Although in many ways she’s a failure as a cat (she’d probably run from a mouse if ever she were to see one), she does have really cool eyes.
Earlier this week, I caught a ride to camp with Charlie and Kristen. The three of us are part of a fairly exclusive club: we’re not just former camp counselors (of which there are many) but former camp counselors who continued working summers long past the usual expiration date. Most camp staff only last a [...]