Image credit: Photo by WTL photos on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Over at Patheos, a few bloggers were asked to describe God in 100 words or "less" (It should be "fewer," but does God want me to nitpick about grammar in this case? I don't know. So I'm passive-aggressively nitpicking, just a little.) and some [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
A Sketch of Denial
Image credit: Photo by chandrika221 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There are certain moments in my life that I come back to, over and over, the way Monet came back to his waterlilies: trying to capture the way they look at just this moment, from just this perspective, in just this light. The moment [...]
Impatient Haiku
Praying for patience. Praying... Waiting... Stupid God! I want patience now!
World of Illusion
Image credit: Photo by kippbakr on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "Whoa! How did he do that?!" my kids exclaimed as the magician we were watching lifted a cup to reveal that a small red rubber ball had been magically transformed into a bright yellow tennis ball. My son Austen thought a moment and then [...]
Warning Signs
Image credit: Photo by kaladan on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I went for a checkup recently, and as I waited for the doctor, I read some of the brochures in the office about heart disease, diabetes, cancer... And found that in nearly every brochure, one of the symptoms listed for cancer was "no symptoms [...]
Help! Bill Gates Is Coming!
Image credit: Photo by Stuck in Customs on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Periodically, news stories send me into a panic. Do I need to order a truck load of face masks before that flu pandemic hits? Is that TSA security person going to have to strip search me now that some guy tried to [...]
A Spoon Is Not a Spoon
Image credit: Photo by skinnylaminx on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As I write this, I have a cup of tea beside me, and I am trying to get myself to drink it. I'm not hesitating because I don't like tea or because I think it will be unpleasant. I'm hesitating because I'm trying to [...]
April Is So Not the Cruellest Month Haiku
Stand in steel grey cold, bleak earth stretching endlessly. February sucks.
Coming Home Again
Image credit: Photo by Elizabeth The Queen Of All Things on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately [...]
Different Strokes
Image credit: Photo by Darwin Bell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark, I have to admit it, hates fish. And people fish evangelize him all the time. I used to too, in my pre-vegetarian days, when a trip to the aquarium would make me hungry. The problem, you see, is never that [...]
