Tag: awesome
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Ornery
It’s been a good day so I don’t know why I’m feeling so ornery. The house is a pleasant temperature and I only had to leave it briefly to take out the trash. I woke up at a reasonable time and got dressed. I’ve eaten quite a bit of tasty food today though not the…
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A Plate and a Presidency
I slept in today because I do not have Walgreens for a few days. I need to eat but I can’t have my preferred snack because we are out of paper plates upon which to cook it. Had I woken up earlier my wife would have been able to run and get them earlier. As…
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First Snow
It is snowing for the first time this season in south central Wisconsin. It’s not sticking to the sidewalks or the roads, but all our foliage is covered in white. Winter is coming I just wish it wasn’t coming so fast. But this area is home. It has been good for my kids. The air…
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Poverty Thinking
There is a very pervasive myth that poor people are better than rich people. The idea is that the poor are more generous, more honest, and more decent. Poverty is in this sense being praised. In Traditional Christianity this sentiment is overt. Rich people can’t enter heaven. Give everything you have away to feed the…
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Playing with the Cat
What is your favorite form of physical exercise? Our cat and I both eat a little too much and are a little less active than we need to be. She has a mouse on a string that is connected to a rod on the other end. I just ran all over the downstairs waving the…
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Sausages
It is two o’clock in the morning here. I woke up after three hours of dreamless sleep. Now I’m not tired. I have Pharmacy today so I need to go back to bed. I already took an extra Trazadone to get to sleep the first time so that’s our. It’s too early in the morning…
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Magic Pancakes
What food would you say is your specialty? When the children were all young, they and my wife were eligible (all at once) for WIC. That is the Women, Infant, and Children food program. We got, among other things, 18 eggs every week. That was way more than we could eat fried or scrambled. Since…
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Spiders
When I was seven or eight I went to Thursday Evening Liturgies with the adults at my father’s Episcopal Church. I always felt very grown up but they incorporated a gong into the service which I got to play at the correct moments. There was an offering plate that got passed around and I always…