I haven’t figured out the scientific logistics yet, but I am determined to never have a firstborn child.
Opinion
Casting a vision
Many of us still have the mind set that we can have Christ without carrying our cross.
The short and small of it
When I was in grade school, I bit people. I did it because bigger kids poked, prodded, and teased me about being half their size.
Slumdog Miracle
“Slumdog Millionaire” is a film with heart – beating, straining, breaking heart. Wrong choices fill the plotline, but they are necessary for the audience to understand what it takes to live and thrive when the whole world is against you. What does it mean to really live?
Tim
I remember watching him cruise around on the riding mower. His head lay back with sunglasses napping on his nose, and his legs were outstretched over the engine. It was like he was riding a lawn chair instead of a John Deere.
Corned beef and cabbage: How to survive an Irish family
A thick skin and deep lungs are two requirements to surviving life with a big, loud, Irish family.
Moving Away
Nathan Furumasu offers a poem in response to Dr. Christopher Mitchell’s lecture “The Poison of Subjectivism: C.S. Lewis on Conviction in a Convictionless Age,” presented at the Caulkins Lectureship last week.
Is this really English?
My family and I lived in Australia for six years in the 70s. In that country, where they do speak English, one would think communicating would be a snap. Not so.
After a while, we learned some of the colloquialisms. But, at first, it was a battle not to appear stupid.
Murdering the mundane
Must we constantly be in contact? In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Murderer” from 1953, the protagonist “murders” all his talking appliances.
The dress that wore her love
It was kind of embarrassing and weird. Walking through the Salem Center Mall looking for a formal for my wife felt like trying to get on the right car of an Italian train – the clothing terms seemed like a foreign language.