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‘Sexiness’ Can Be Good, and Cell Phones Are Killing It
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Fine Then, I Won’t Have A Party
This is normal, right? Not everybody can make it to everything – we all have busy lives. And not everybody is good at communicating. We can’t expect everyone we invite to show up for our thing, to help our idea materialize.
Decorum In Driver’s Ed? What The Driving Instructor Said
I have three teen girls who enjoy a good drama or rom-com, and we’re no strangers to the Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley (2005). It’s a fun watch, and there’s something intriguing and compelling about the period, costumes, balls, etc. The tale is set just over...
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Bethlehem … Or A Fake Town in the Metaverse?
"Once in Royal David's City" is one of my favorite Christmas carols. When I was eight, my class…
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Squid Game: The ‘Bread and Circuses’ of Today
I talked to one of me teens recently about the Roman concept of "bread and circuses," things leaders used to…
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Screens Are Damaging Our Kids – Childhood 2.0 Shows Us How
There's been a flurry of films in the past few years about kids and the screen-based life they now…
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Miserable Moving with the Military
Traveling military is often unpredictable, at times inefficient, and usually slower than you'd like. I knew all this well, but…
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Refugees in Greece
Greece is – as you may know – a hub for refugees heading west from unrest in the middle east; last count I heard,…
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Why it’s A-OK to have a messy house this Christmas
So I have this daughter… (Don't you love that? Couldn't a blog post go just about anywhere with…
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How faith’s like learning a language
I don't know if you could say that we've carved out a "normal" for ourselves yet,…
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Lost and found: Two buckets
Want to know a good time to lose stuff? When you're moving. Mercy, is that a good time to lose…
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Belonging, and the curious promise of limited time
Wednesday night's AWANA night. The kids have been in the program for three years, and you could say the Wednesday…
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Blessing the space
Rain was forecast the day our "goodbye Aricos" gathering was scheduled – a scenario unheard of in sunny Ventura, land of…
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A race run
This spring my consulting has involved research and analysis on college athletics. One aspect of the work has encompassed the faith-athletics…
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On spending and Plato
I've gone through a kind of metamorphosis in my spending habits in the past couple years… Or maybe you could…
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When you wake up with a vulnerability hangover
"After I wrote it I had a vulnerability hangover," I said to an old friend as we sat talking about…
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Lessons in joy from Alvin and the Chipmunks
My kids are obsessed with Alvin and the Chipmunks. Last month the oldest, who's 10, went with a friend to…
