“Indeed, I tremble for my

“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” –Thomas Jefferson

why blogs are so cool

Blogs and the internet are cool because you get to meet people who are interested in all kinds of things you might never have known about. One of the worthier things I’ve done over the last couple of weeks was to track down Interrogations at Noon, by Dana Gioia, from the library. I want my… Continue reading why blogs are so cool

still alive

sorry for the long silence. There’s this black dog that’s been hanging around the house; I’m not feeding him but he just won’t go away. I also just haven’t been inspired to write, in part because what meagre creative energy I had had has been going into a little side project of mind-boggling frivolity. Let’s… Continue reading still alive

Facere

1. PRAY FOR TERRI — her murder recommences today. 2. Pray for Pansy. 3. Finish decorating Hambet’s birthday cake. 4. Purchase balloons and streamers. My life is so trivial sometimes I just disgust myself.

Prayer Request

Received this morning from a friend: …on a more serious note, please pray for a little boy named O., 2 1/2 years old. …He fell yesterday and needed stiches- somewhere during the ER visit he went into shock, his heart stopped, and he was revived, but rushed to a second hospital, and then air lifted… Continue reading Prayer Request

Lileks to “Supermoms”: Chill.

Listened to the Prager show – a conversation on self-esteem, with a few calls from women who felt that they lacked self-esteem because they were stay-at-home moms instead of hard-charging superwomen. Well, they didn’t lack self-esteem so much as they inferred from some great floating amorphous thing called SOCIETY that should lack self-esteem, and they… Continue reading Lileks to “Supermoms”: Chill.