This article about Operation Christmas Child was on the front page of CNN.com this morning. It’s really a marvelous charity effort, and one in which our church enthusiastically participates every year. That it is a Christian effort is not mentioned until the fifteenth paragraph. Actually, as I read, I was beginning to think the article … Read more
Did you know there’s a disease called Jumping Frenchmen of Maine? Swear. Click the link. I saw a car today that had a ribbon magnet for a fairly rare disorder on it—rare enough that the name of the disorder had to be printed right on the ribbon, because you wouldn’t know what it stood for … Read more
I slayed the Christmas shopping beast this morning. (Well, almost. The part that was stressing me is over.) I try to teach my boys not to manufacture needless urgency, but my approach to the shopping this year was an awfully poor manifestation of that ideal. Hell, I don’t even have to do most of it … Read more