Regular Life

Recently I happened to see a user’s Inbox. The two most recent e-mails had the following subject lines:

Ephesians 3:20
Naked Fireman Calendar 2008

It’s always fun to see seemingly competing moral messages in juxtaposition, and even more fun to imagine whether the sender was the same for each e-mail above.
For all those (including me) who don’t have [...]

Finally, I have lifted the pall that covered my musical self for nearly 20 years.
Band. Call it what you will — it was fun, and by my senior high school year it had been a daily presence in my life for seven years. Well, every school day, that is. Like any other [...]

The Little Christmas
We arrived home well after dark on Christmas Eve and were not looking forward to baking cookies to leave for Santa, even though they were just the cut-off kind. What to our wondering eyes did appear? Why, a Rubbermaid TakeAlong container full of homemade goodies from our new neighbors. Score!
Despite that delightful find, [...]

Ben opens his first Star Wars gifts from Christmas 2007.
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Merry Christmas to all!
Update: Ben’s Uncle and Aunt J gave him these toys that made me pine for my old action figures.

Anyone whom we sent a Christmas card probably already has it, or will very shortly. It looks exactly like the image above. All of you who do not receive one can just look at the picture here. We’re not even sure we’re going to send out 70-something cards next year, so keep your eye here [...]

Three toys I saw online made me scratch my head. We’ll get to those after a brief, topical discussion (210 words — short for me!).
On my lunch hour Monday, I heard Dr. Susan Linn deride children’s exposure to television commercials and media-based toys. Her organization, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, suggests buying toys [...]

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Once again, Europe gets the cool stuff before we do.
Can you imagine strolling to your local library to check out not a book, a CD, or a DVD, but a person? At least a few in Europe have tried it since the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen did it in 2000. My page-a-day Uncle [...]

My spirits uplifted by my conversation with a total stranger whom I most likely never would see again, I certainly didn’t expect what came next.
I watched through the show room’s plate glass windows to the service bay. As our minivan Homer rested on the hydraulic lift, his tires helplessly hanging a few feet above [...]

Those reading “Bernie” will find Part Nine picks up where Part Eight left off. Handy, eh?
In this space, I often post long missives whose message might be conveyed in far fewer words. I once read an article that stated the average Internet user has the attention span to read about 500 words. [...]