My Daughter Calls Me “Dude”

There is a very bright and wonderful part of my life that doesn’t often make it to these posts. It’s those girls you see above.
The older one has taken to calling me “dude.”  When I suggest this is no name for a mother, she replies that she’s gotten so used to addressing her friends with the [...]

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Ok, Ok… I’ll Be Grateful Already

Isn’t it the case that when you least expect it, some verse of Scripture jumps up and bites you? Like this one:
Do not be anxious about anything [who, me, anxious?!], but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  Philippians 4: 6
Ok, ok. I’ll do it. I’ll pray with thanksgiving [...]

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Delivered: Don’t Forget It!

I must sound like the most bitter hag on the planet, considering my spate of blogs on anger, doubt, frustration with church, etc., etc., etc.
So, I’m going to turn the tables tonight and exercise my thanksgiving muscle.
You know what God said about remembering. To keep from turning into wearisome whiners, those Israelites were supposed to [...]

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I Destroyed My First-Born Last Night

It was a painful and scary moment.
I went to Settings. I found Delete Blog. Two clicks later, it was gone.
My first blog.
I deleted the former Longing for a Holiday at Sea blog, nee Prosperity Gospel, NOT! (I decided the first name was just a bit too sarcastic to attract my kind of visitors… Ha)
Why did [...]

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In Vitro & Stem Cells: An Unwitting Hypocrisy

I’ve been bothered — agitated — for some time about a very hypocritical situation in the American evangelical church.
A May 9, 2003 New York Times article said:
Fertility clinics in the United States have accumulated some 400,000 frozen human embryos, about twice the number estimated, since 1986 when the in vitro fertilization procedure began, the first official [...]

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Doggie Do-Over (Phunny Photos)

Scarlet (reddish) and Coco (brownish) got haircuts yesterday.  Top pix are before. Bottom are after.
My sister and family tell me the before pix look like mug shots (they also said poor Coco looks like a hedgehog) and the after pix, as if the dogs have had a little too much to drink.
Tell me what YOU [...]

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Is Corduroy for Real??

Five year old theology:
Daughter: Mom: Do you know that Corduroy is a made up book? Teddy bears don’t come alive.

Me: Yes, some books are made up stories. But what do you think about the Bible? It says that Jesus rose from the dead. I mean, that’s pretty weird.
Daughter: But that’s true.
Me: How do you know?
Daughter: [...]

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Blog Slacker

I’ve been overwhelmed with work. And kids. (Can’t forget the dogs, too). Then I was out of town last week. Excuses, excuses, excuses. But the sad fact is: I have become a blog slacker. 
In my slacker mode, I dig up a comment I left and then post it as a full-blown blog. How sad is that?
Then Treyka tells me I [...]

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The Magnificent Seven (LOL)

Seven things about myself.  An easy thing to blog about, and treyka told me I have to. So here are my sordid seven….
1. I met my husband online 13 years ago. We didn’t mean to. Weren’t looking. At the time, it was a really weird thing to do. So we took to telling people we met in ”an alien [...]

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There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!

Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]

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There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!

Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]

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Girl’s Got Game (photo)

Hustling (in a good way) daughter. Proud momma.
First basketball game today!
Editor’s note: At the next to last game, this girl finally got her mo together and sank FOUR in a row, effectively winning the game. Dad and I were SO proud (and shocked since neither of us were athletes).  Funny thing, the night before I had specifically [...]

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Girl’s Got Game (photo)

Hustling (in a good way) daughter. Proud momma.
First basketball game today!
Editor’s note: At the next to last game, this girl finally got her mo together and sank FOUR in a row, effectively winning the game. Dad and I were SO proud (and shocked since neither of us were athletes).  Funny thing, the night before I had specifically [...]

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Time to Write Another Blog and New Year’s Resolutions

Am I the only one out there who writes a blog and then clicks on Dashboard, Blog Stats? And comes back a while later to check again? And again?
Does anyone else out there take some strange delight seeing just how popular you are?
Here is the sad part — I am supposed to be writing about [...]

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Time to Write Another Blog and New Year’s Resolutions

Am I the only one out there who writes a blog and then clicks on Dashboard, Blog Stats? And comes back a while later to check again? And again?
Does anyone else out there take some strange delight seeing just how popular you are?
Here is the sad part — I am supposed to be writing about [...]

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