So.  I wasn't feeling so hot today, so I went to bed early, in hopes of getting a little extra rest.  Good idea, right?

I'm just drifting off, which takes a little work as usual, because turning my brain off takes awhile.  And I hear this weird noise.  Fluttery.  And I figure hey, Maggie's messing around with some paper or something, right?  Happens ( Read more... )

Not exactly sure how to phrase this, but I'll give it a shot.  As we get older, our ideas change.  Not just their content, but also the reasoning behind them.  When these ideas have to do with our faith, that change can be particularly hard to deal with- but that isn't the only category of ideas we worry about change with ( Read more... )

I've been fairly active in fandom, under another name, for over a decade now.  I am a nerd- I like Star Trek and Star Wars and Stargate and Firefly.  I intend to one day watch Buffy, but I haven't yet because there are seven seasons and I know what happens when I get obsessed with something new.  I didn't hate Hayden Christensen's performance as ( Read more... )

Based on John 6:56-69

“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” What comforting words to hear in a time like ours. The economy, depending on who you talk to, is either in ruins or slowly gaining ground. The country is up at arms over healthcare, of all things. The housing market is a mess, we are still faced by ( Read more... )

Maggie and I are spending some quality time out on my lovely three-season porch.  She's a big fan of windows but sadly the house has only a couple she can sit near enough to see out, so the wide windowsills out here are a big thing for her.  So naturally she's found a tiny piece of plastic on the floor to play with.  She is still adorable and also ( Read more... )

So hey, apparently there was a Writer's Block question on LJ that I missed.  Very simply: Why do you love your body?  Which is certainly something that, in my experience, American women in particular have trouble articulating.  So I'll take a shot at it.  I love my body because, barring a few small things, I think it expresses my personality.  Don' ( Read more... )

Well, first read this, as I haven't laughed that hard for some time.  Particularly at the thought of someone being British and not dead, though to discover why that's funny, you'll have to read the post.

Secondly, I have a couple recommendations:  the first is for a 2007 movie called Arranged, which admittedly takes a very rosy view of arranged ( Read more... )

So, for the last couple weeks I haven't been online much, as to be online meant being in my office.  And being in my office either meant shutting Maggie out (and getting whined at for it and feeling like a bad cat-staffer) or letting Maggie in and occasionally not catching her before she ripped a powercord out of the wall (or, in one memorable case ( Read more... )

So I was skimming through "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"  again (and I hope I don't need to tell you it's a good book) and I was contemplating the thought of discussing Theodicy with the fictional Dr. Rodney McKay, and I came up with, what I think might be a new, or at least not nearly as ex- of an ex-horse, concept to answer the problem ( Read more... )

I guess it would figure that the day when I actually give into the six-week-long cycle and preach on the bread of life would be the day when we don't have coffee and snacks afterward.  Meh.

Also, yes, please, to this.

On the other hand, a story which I really thought I had put here at some point and apparently haven't went over really well.  It ( Read more... )