All the girls are doing it, so I thought I’d try it, too. Not a whole lot to say to younger me. I respect my past self. Any pitfalls I might warn her about were not matters where I would have heeded anyone else’s advice. So, I’ll keep it short: Dear 17-Year Old Me, Don’t be…
Juss: “I slide into another room. What kind of monster do I see?” Mommy: “A big blue dragon!” Juss: “I hold up my sword and cry out ‘Knights of the Seven Round-Up!’ This makes lighting come out of my sword! Then I slice him with my magic sword and my belt of strenght, and I use my seven-piece wand!”…
I’ve been reading a bit more about Spindrift and continue to find it amazing! [For those who missed the previous post: Spindrift was an organization that applied scientific method to prayer. They set up hundreds and hundreds of experiments where people prayed over plants of various kinds. Sometimes, they would set up the experiment so…
As always, only of interest to those who want to join in praying. For this month (which is almost over ;-), let’s just be grateful! For years, I’ve been hearing stories about people in my church who, when asking for help through prayer, were told to list twenty-five things they were grateful for, and how some…
Just read an article in the TV Guide on sex on TV. (It included the amusing line about a teen show having a sex scene “your grandmother is too young to see” ) One of the people interviewed praised the growing amount of smut on TV with the comment “The more comfortable we are talking…
John asks:First question: Where does my new name go? I am John Justin-Martyr Charles Wright? Or does it go after my middle name: John Charles Justin-Martyr Wright? Do I use the whole saint’s name (Justin Martyr) or only his Christian name (Justin)? Mark Shea replies: In answer to your questions: Your birth name has been erased…
As we were having our first post-Lent coffee after church, Juss summed up, with a slight expression of distain, what he had learned of Easter (apparently in Sunday School): “Nothing happened. Jesus escaped.”
SF SIgnal has an entry about whether or not Young Adult books are currently too graphic. As you might imagine nearly everyone who responded cheered the current standard. This was my post:—————————————————————————————————- My first response is that I suspect that most of the people responding have no idea what the YA field is like today. Comments…
Last Friday was the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet where, among other things, prizes were handed out for the recent Pinewood Derby races. Orville, with craftsman from Uncle Bill, entered a delightful car. I made the mistake of telling him that it would probably win most original. Well, when we got to the races,…
“Mommy, where’s the North Book?” Juss now asks several times a day, by which he means The D’aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, which has been a favorite of both John’s and mine since childhood. John and I love myths, but earlier attempts to share them with the kids had not gone over somehow. So, yesterday, I…