The US Pipe building was imploded Sunday morning. This is a shot I took of the remains on the way to my parent's house Sunday afternoon. Although it was ugly, and it will be exciting to see what goes up in...
Thought the final episode of The Sopranos was perfect. Never wouldathunk Journey could be so nail-biting. Right now is the perfect time to visit Renaissance Park before it's overrun with people like Coolidge. Today April and I walked around with Percy...
I am scheduled to have my Tastefully Simple party this Tuesday evening. I sent out the 25 invitations last week (with Star Wars stamps!) from my hostess pack. I haven't really heard back much, except for a few regrets....
Pay Per Post has put yet another twist in the blogging road. The same model that PayPerPost launched last June is still in effect: bloggers log into the system and see a list of opportunities available for them to take...
A fifteen year-old boy came home with a new Chevrolet Avalanche and his parents began to yell and scream, "Where did you get that truck???!!!" He calmly told them, "I bought it today." "With what money?" demanded his parents. They...
A resident of my local community (what are we called: Brainerdites?) wrote a thought-provoking email to the Chattanoogan recently. In it, the writer contrasts the official response to incidents of sort-of-threatening teenage behavior in Coolidge Park to the response...
Four words: My snake laid eggs. Not chicken eggs, Not lizard eggs, but nice, oval, infertile snake eggs. "Why did you think she was a he?" you ask. Well, for one, I thought and hoped she was a he, but...
I posted one of many "funny" pics found on Google's Streeview a couple of days ago. Then Google came out with a way to request pictures to be removed from the net. Well, here's one that has been removed: The...
Thursday night Rehema threw up until there was nothing else to throw up. She woke up at 2 am and threw up some more Daddy had to keep her since she could not go to daycare. ...
Without going into all the details about Shane and his ex-wife; something happened yesterday that just really hit me the wrong way. We (Shane, Logan, Ashley and I) were eating lunch and I asked Logan if his mom had changed her...
Lately, you can't help put hear about Paris Hilton and her sentencing, jail time, house arrest, court date and then back to jail. This is one of those areas that everyone has their own opinion about. Yes, she...
My beautiful little Brazilian neighbor, Helena, running from the camera:Although a gift, L’abri is a difficult place to be—especially as it is easy to idealize it, to turn it into a utopia, after leaving here and upon anticipating a return....
Rob from Boston in the L'abri Study Room--Probably reading Kierkegaard!Still relating to this theme of the present moment, I wanted to share a fantastic, lyrical, quotation from Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments in which K explains the very moment of conversion from...
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