Daddy Found a Butt Munch
After a couple of hours out of the house this weekend, I returned to the breathless excitement of my young daughter exclaiming, "Momma! Come see! Daddy found a butt munch." Continue reading →
View ArticleFig Leaves – it’s what’s for dinner!
Restoring Eden, officially Christians for Environmental Stewardship, was formed in the early 1990s by Peter Illyn, an evangelical pastor from the Pacific Northwest. Visit them at www.restoringeden.org....
View ArticleWhy I Love the Fictional Earl Ray
It is impossible to share all the great tweets because, well, they are all great. If you are on Twitter and follow West Virginia politics, you really need to find @ActingGov_WV and treat yourself to...
View ArticleStodgy is Sexy
The movement has begun. Arrogance is out. Conspicuous consumption is out. Risk is definitely out. In the ways we spend, dress, invest, and consume, we are returning to old values like thrift,...
View ArticleRise of The Worm Wand: A Cautionary Tale
Mr. Potato Head had a strange late-breaking impact in our teen years, when I kicked my sister out of my room so I could read in peace and she retaliated by lobbing an Idaho baker stuck with a lighted...
View ArticleAnastasia Moves In: My New Neighbors Are Royals
There are lot of people with money in the general vicinity where I live. Suffice it to say, I have been around enough blocks to see the glaring irony in the general attitude many of them take that...
View ArticleEsse-a-Go-Go: The Celebrity Kroger Story
For a full 10 years at least, Mr. Lamanca was like Keyer Soze to me, only cooler. I could not be in Kroger's without someone coming on the intercom and paging, "Mr. Lamanca, Mr. Lamanca....please call...
View ArticleJust for Fun: The Esse Diem Meme!
My friend Doug Imbrogno is wicked smart, talented, and musical to boot. When he speaks, I listen. The other day he made the off-hand suggestion that I put together an “Esse Diem meme” – because it...
View ArticleDrum Roll, Please! The Meme Winners Are…
Yes, I sound a lot like your grandmother when I say this, but it is true: I am honored to have had each of the 17 submitted photographs in this little gavotte into sharing favorite books and poking...
View ArticleOne year later, another meme surfaces . . .
It’s probably wrong to imitate yourself, but last summer when I did the Esse Diem meme contest for fun, I secretly lamented that I wasn’t photographed with my own book. Today, that is remedied. If...
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