The potty training is finally working!  After six months of trying and trying, going through the motions and having my son still not care for the process, we seem to have success!! I can’t really say that the success is because of anything brilliant I did on my end.  Truthfully, he started  getting an awful [...]

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Abraham Heschel was a very influential Jewish thinker who wrote beautifully about the Sabbath.  I’ve always loved his description of the Sabbath as a palace in time.  The Sabbath comes every week, and it is up to us to make something beautiful of it.  We build the palace ourselves through our traditions. Well, I am [...]

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You know those haggard looking women, a toddler or two in tow, who talk half to themselves and half to their children?  You see them wandering grocery store aisles at weird times of day, like say, 7 am. I have officially joined their ranks! Did you know that if you do your grocery shopping at [...]

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For all of my declarations that I will only work on short projects for the next little while, I seem to have all sorts of ideas running through my head about more Biblical narratives!  I’m kind of glad, actually.  I was afraid that all of my longer ideas would be dried up, but here I [...]

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It’s Friday night, and I have both my husband and my son snoring in the bedroom…  I have some time to myself, and it feels wonderful! First of all, I should say that while I was hoping to go to the BC Campmeeting for a booksigning, it will not work out.  I tend to jump [...]

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Tonight, we decided to cut Jr’s hair.  He had this kind of Einstein explosion going on up top.  It wasn’t curly.  It wasn’t straight.  It would curl when we oiled it, but as soon as the oil dried, or whatever oil does, he’s be back to the crazy again.  It also grew in three Joker-esque [...]

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