Today is Earth Day. It is a day that we celebrate the planet that we live on. And do you know why we celebrate it? Is it because it is pretty? NO! WE NEED IT TO LIVE ON! Perhaps some of you have lost sight of the fact that if we kill most of the […]
Category Archives: Rant
Parenting is Not a Job
There is a viral video making the rounds this week, in which a company put out a fake job listing and then interviewed some poor suckers who, you know, actually need work, and then told them they would have to work 24-7 with no breaks, no pay, no vacations, etc. And then, at the end, […]
Kids Make No Sense
I want you to take a moment this morning and just look at your child. What are they doing? How are they doing it? And is it possible that there is some sort of brain in there controlling things? Or are there several competing brains, each struggling for domination? Or perhaps no brain at all, […]
The 5 Most Annoying Things to Buy
We’ve all been there. Trying to buy one small item, and stuck at the back of a line of the slowest, most obnoxious people imaginable. These people (probably) are not trying to ruin your day, or make you late for something. They are (probably) fine human beings with families that love them, and they may […]
You Can’t Always Get What You Need
Do you know that Rolling Stones song that goes, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need?” So often these days, I’m feeling like it is the opposite. Every store I go into seems to recite a different version of the same mantra. […]
How Important is This Rehearsal?
There is a classic, unanswerable question that seems to constantly be flowing from someone’s lips on the day of almost every rehearsal. I’m not pointing fingers here, because this is not confined to one person; it’s more of an epidemic. But last week, a few hours before choir rehearsal, I got a message from one […]
Sometimes I Miss Video Stores
I got a Playstation 4 for Christmas from my daughter’s teddy bear. It is amazing and I love it. Of course you can play games on it, since it is technically a gaming console, but there are so many other things you can do with it, like stream movies and television! Wirelessly connected to our […]
How to Talk to Your Kids About Walmart
Yesterday, as I was driving my daughter to her first ice skating lesson, we somehow got onto the topic of Walmart. “You hate Walmart,” my daughter stated correctly from the back seat. “You can never find anything there.” This was also correct. The layout of Walmart confuses me, and there seem to be random bins […]
Why I Didn’t Write a Post For Today
I was all set to write something. I had ideas. I had time. And then my laptop (actually the church’s laptop, so even more fun) just decided to die. No power. No “I’m plugged in” blue light. Nothing. It is a lifeless hunk of cheap plastic. I spent my whole night chatting with tech support […]
Being Good to Go
Last night my friend McCrim called me up and asked if I would do some sort of silly improvisational musical performance that she was trying to plan, and she needed the whole thing planned by today, with a title and three sentence description for the calendar and everything. Obviously I said yes, and we had […]