What conclusion can we draw from this? Which sin rules? How many sins?

It was today's plan to go see the movie Magic Mike, before it left the theatre. Yeah, I'm the only one who has procrastinated this long. Do I get chalk points for resisting lust, but do those get erased because of the procrastinating? And I really wanted it to be today, since ( Read more... )

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My little Double Miracle

I have struggled along with the Car From Hell the past few years. It's the third “Post Divorce Special”, as I call it, that I have driven since the divorce 13 years ago. I had the rattletrap about 7 years. It's a '96 Mercury Villager minivan that even God Himself was struggling to keep running and in one piece towards the ( Read more... )

 Mother's Day Moment - a lifetime gift, not on Mother's Day

Mother's Day, at its best, is not about getting that storebought card on time, or that boring dozen roses, sale-priced for the holiday and ordered online with a mouse-click.  These are too often DUTIES, plain and simple.   Mother's Day is about Moments, memorable moments to show your dear ( Read more... )

 Mid-Life Crisis - De-bunked

Mid-Life Crisis... A cute new term, flung about carelessly and so often, in the ultimate hopes that, once accepted as a common term, will have a desensitizing effect on the general population, and the guilty perpetrators will be able to continue the behavioral practices without the impunity of earlier times.   This is ( Read more... )

April 2, 2011

Time flies when you’re moping around, chained to the apartment and with NO laptop or internet access.  Here it is April 2nd, and I didn’t even realize that yesterday was April Fool’s Day.  I don’t think either of my kids did either.  I spoke to both of them on the phone yesterday, and neither mentioned it.  In the back of their minds ( Read more... )

I'm a Basket Case, and Fiercely Proud Of It !

You've heard the old phrase, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”    Well, along the way, I knew I was doing it wrong, I knew I was supposed to have another....a separate identity from my “two baskets”.  But in their early years, there was no time for anything else except fulfilling the needs of ( Read more... )

Advise vs. Advice =
I'd advise you to give advice very sparingly, and perhaps none at all if you're the Mother-in-law.

To adviSe is to Show....

Giving too much adviCe can be seen by some as a “vice”.
(And if you still can't remember because of vise vs. vice, then 
“Too much advice can make someone Cough and Choke....Or 
"Unwanted advice can make ( Read more... )

I just made a very satisfying discovery.

I just discovered that the ex-human only lives 10.5 miles from Hell, MI.   Just a short 18 minute ride, says Maps.Yahoo.   In contrast, he's much closer to Hell than I am.   I'm a full hour and 15 minutes away !   (Funny, my last three moves keep bringing me closer and closer to Hell.   I suppose it's all ( Read more... )