Wednesday 10:15 AM – Well, it’s done. I published it on my blog. I am going to work out for at least 30 minutes a day for all of Lent. If I don’t do it, then everyone will know. I mean, I could lie about it. These people don’t know if anything I say is […]
Category Archives: Lent
This Year I’m Giving Up Being Fat and Lazy
There was a slightly awkward silence in the room as we all tried to fill it with mumbles and smiles and half-sentences. “I’m not saying that you have to do anything!” Rev. Dark Murmurs insisted, “I was just wondering if you were doing anything for Lent this year.” It seemed as though no one in the room, […]
Please Don’t Give Me Up For Lent
Well, it’s that time of year again. The time when Christians the land over disappear from social media for 40 days and 40 nights in an attempt to reconnect with God by disconnecting from Facebook. And this is a fine and laudable thing. I do not want to disparage anyone who feels that a brief […]
Forty Stories Long
People. I have solved my problem. And whichever important problem of mine you were thinking of, it’s not that one. No, I have figured out what I am going to do for Lent this year. Last week I was mildly complaining about that fact that all of the good things I was going to do […]
Peeps and Mountain Dew
Well, it is officially Lent. In the past, I have tried to give up something for Lent, although this year all of my plans have been thwarted. I had originally thought that I would give up staying up past midnight, but then I had to pick my mother up at the airport at midnight last […]