Good taste or just another fashion disaster? Here are some opinions as to why men sport those tight jeans that are so popular now days.
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Life’s Lessons from Baking Pies
After dinner, I cut him a piece. He took a forkful, a smile spreading across his face as he placed the delicacy in his mouth. Suddenly, I saw a look of wonder – not a positive wonder, but a “What is this?” wonder. Sure enough, he had bitten into a cherry pit. Those home canned cherries had not been pitted! How was I to know?
A Test We Must All Pass
How would our “up-town” church folk react to someone who looked like a homeless man in need of a shower? Would we pass or fail “the test”?
For the Love of Coupons!
Occasionally, my enthusiasm for coupons has not been a good thing. In fact, my husband’s surgery a year ago led to a “coupon” situation I have yet to live down.
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.
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.