Time. One year, my mother-in-law had just moved into a new house, and for Christmas I gave her an afternoon of my time with my stepladder, drill, and measuring tape. I got all of her pictures and shelves hung, and we spent a lovely time chatting as I worked. It cost me nothing and she really appreciated it.

The first thing that I noticed when I walked into the doctor's office was that it smelled like dry dog food. It made me wonder whether this office had been a vet's office at some point; however, dry dog food was all I smelled and not any other dog odors, so I just chalked it up to strangeness ( Read more... )

I found an old friend on Facebook who turns out to be a very conservative Republican (she's a fan of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, which tells you all you need to know). She posted this as her status the other day ( Read more... )

Well, most Pagans, anyway. I can't speak for everybody ( Read more... )

So I was behind a minivan-type vehicle on the freeway offramp that had a Ron Paul sticker and a Dino Rossi sticker. It also had a "coexist" sticker - the kind with different religious symbols on it. I was thinking about that - how it's entirely possible that the Republicans that I tend to paint with a broad brush might indeed have progressive views ( Read more... )

I just realized that my father-in-law has been gone for almost exactly ten years now, and my mother-in-law for almost exactly five ( Read more... )

Two of my Facebook friends know each other, and I had no idea that they knew each other, and my worlds have been colliding behind my back, and now they're colliding in front of me, and I feel like my head's gon' 'splode ( Read more... )

So now that I have a job, it's a little trickier to keep up with this blog thing. Also, being on Facebook means that many of my random thoughts end up there instead of here ( Read more... )

The headline reads, "An evangelical divide in debate over torture." The subheading says, "A new poll shows that white evangelicals are more likely than others to tolerate torture if lives are at stake. Some church leaders are struggling to figure out how those findings can be reconciled with biblical principles ( Read more... )