Dan and I talked a lot this weekend about certain aspects of parenting that work much better when the parent knows him- or herself, when the parent can react to the child out of maturity, not out of anger. I’ll give a couple of examples. These happen to be (externally) good examples, but I wasn’t […]
So Much To Say
Yesterday morning, I received the most haunting and devastating e-mail from a long-lost friend. All day, his e-mail hung in the foreground of my mind, and I couldn’t shake it. It’s one of those correspondences that makes you shiver, shake, and cry, and immediately, you want to drive over to where he is, and wrap […]
Modeling Behavior
Well, Liliana and I went to the doctor this morning to get her bright pink cast off, and instead the doctor decided, after removing it and x-raying her thumb, to put another one back on–for two more weeks! The bone is not healed yet. Let me tell you. The cast probably bothers us more than […]
Feel-Goodery
It makes me sad that studios like Fox have had to design specific divisions for the evangelical Christian (Fox Faith and Provident Film). Clean, cozy stories for the cleanest people? What? I don’t get it. If you’ve read the Bible through and through, it’s a pretty harrowing read in some places, and from it, we’ve […]
Religion vs. Atheism
I first heard about this book through Books & Culture, and having finished it just now, I would suggest everyone read it–no matter what you believe. Reason #1: The book is 67 pages. You can read it in a jiffy. Reason #2: The two debaters on either end of the spectrum (religion vs. atheism) go […]