keep passing the open windows

SS and I went to scenic Belle, Missouri last weekend to visit our dear friend Chad. We frequently take our children on small trips so we are accustomed to getting lost travelling together and we always have a good time. Even when things go disastrously wrong. (Like the time two guys [...]

At lunchtime today I just happened to stop by the neighbor lady’s house where Taylor was doing his football-auction induced labor, ostenibly to bring him a drink, really to check up on him.
“X.” had already sent him home for the day, after a few hours of weeding. He’s going back tomorrow to trim [...]

I’m the only “white person” at my office. It’s not a distinction I make, but one my co-workers do, mainly by calling me “the white girl.”
Growing up in the ‘burbs, well, everyone (except the pastor’s adopted kids and one hispanic young man) was “white,” so I never really thought much about race. In my [...]

Yesterday Taylor won a stereo from the library’s summer reading program. In the five weeks of the program he had read 38 books. He should be thanking me for the technological grounding he’s had this summer, without which, he would doubtless have played many games of HALO and read few books.
On our [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter attends two local church-based youth groups.
And she’s an atheist.
Today one of the youth groups is going to see “Get Smart.” I encouraged Taylor to go, too, but the weirdo boy isn’t willing to put up with a little extraneous religion to go to a [...]