Ok, I am pissed. The Dress Code thing has always been an issue for me – but we are at code-fucking-orange here people. That’s right, girls are getting hazed and shamed. They are being kicked out of proms, made to wear scarlet letter suits, and are being called skanks by those in authority – the […]
Totally OK with whatever path these guys choose, even if they want to be birds. I grew up in kind of a rich town, as kind of a poor kid. Not truly poor; I recognize that my family owned their own house and we had food to eat, but everything is relative. When you grow […]
Bringing up Pumpkin Last November I tossed rotting Jack-o-lanterns into an unused garden bed and hoped for the best. I occasionally watered it, I occasionally put some compost in there with it, but I mostly left it alone. This summer I was happy to see huge leaves emerging from the garden bed, and now there […]
The four year old feeling a previous service. Photo credit Sean Elliot I was on a panel the other day and these words found their way out of my mouth: “When I teach Sunday school – ” I was quickly interrupted. “Wait, what!? YOU teach Sunday school?” At first I was confused. Is that weird? […]
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