I stood over my kid as he freaked about long division. He was tired, hungry and had already done this problem 50 times in the past, but his brain was hiccupping on this one step. He was insisting he’d done it this way all along and couldn’t understand why it no longer worked. As his… Continue reading Parent Thyself
Category: Reflections
You Don’t Always Have to Be Right
Said to me by Sage. We were not having an argument. He was encouraging and comforting me after I expressed regret and embarrassment about two risks I took this summer — the purchase of the dino A class RV (my doing, many assume Sages) and the purchase of a camp site at a place my son dislikes.… Continue reading You Don’t Always Have to Be Right
What Were you Thinking?
A friend, with 5 children who works full time, recently asked me why I decided to go back to work & volunteer extensively for school all while still obviously being a Mom. I could have asked her the same thing! But, you know, her decision was made a while back and I bet the answer… Continue reading What Were you Thinking?
Thinking Through Forgiveness
We hurt each other a lot, unintentionally, with assumptions mostly or lack of empathy. But I’m not wondering about small injuries. Those are easy. Forgive. In relationships, those little things can layer up, of course, and become habits or large seeming monstrosities. So that eventually one fights about lettuce and bursts into tears screaming, “It’s… Continue reading Thinking Through Forgiveness
Honest Atheists
Love this article on New Atheism vs. the time honored Nietzsche and Camus and Larkin: http://theweek.com/article/index/241108/where-are-the-honest-atheists In addition to the authors insight that a secular world is not all progress and roses, I would like to add that I have trouble envisioning a moral world without religion. I simply do not have that kind of faith… Continue reading Honest Atheists
Does it Amount to Anything?
I believe American culture suffers from a product mentality. We are materialists at heart. Consumers. Goals, desires are often outside of ourselves and we’re on a linear trajectory towards acquiring something – a better job, a higher salary, a lake house, a BMW, a trip to Spain. And while that has all kinds of problems… Continue reading Does it Amount to Anything?
Check This Out
Creepy Images From an Abandoned Bible Theme Park I need to write a story about someone who’s been living there since it closed, believing they’re Jesus Christ and they’ve completed the second coming. Maybe waiting for Dad’s follow up instructions.
Oh Statistics
Love this one from XKCD.
What Do You Write?
I used to say “Christian Fiction,” but I got tired of watching people back away figuring I was going to thump their head with a hidden Bible. Christianities, as my friend calls it, conjures innumerable tangents and emotions. Since I can’t finesse fears, joys, assumptions and expectations in a one sentence and since no one… Continue reading What Do You Write?
I Hate Well Dressed Crowds
I’ve been thinking about my social fears and discomfort lately and trying to brainstorm ways to overcome it. In particular, there’s an event Saturday night at work I’m dreading. I’m starting to realize my social anxiety is just me being incredibly conceited. Nobody cares about me when I’m in a crowd. Only I am cowered… Continue reading I Hate Well Dressed Crowds