Eleven women. No kids. No husbands. Add a spa and you have a weekend to remember. This past weekend was the annual trek to the Hershey Hotel and spa. A bunch of my girlfriends from Pitt planned it last year and I was unable to attend. This year, I committed to the weekend months in advance because I...

I’ve made this a topic of conversation lately with some of my Mexican friends, so I thought I should share it with a wider audience. A few weeks ago we were standing around after a worship service on a Sunday morning.  One of the young guys (Alberto) at the church had a little bowl of ice...

At the lunch table a little bit ago, Sweet Hubby and I were having a discussion about the company he used to work for and how things have gone down hill since he left. We talked about that job and this new one and how things are so much better... Just about then, Stephen interjected: "You know what ...

Who is your favorite poet? That’s the sort of question new sweethearts might ask each other during those first weeks of getting to know one another and falling in love. Especially if one of them is a romantic type who envisions tender scenes of cuddling in front of the fire or strolling in the spr...

A friend forwarded me a link to this blogpost from Brett McCracken (who has now been added to my GoogleReader). It's incredible and I've come to the conclusion I'm a Christian hipster. I've bolded everything that's true of me. This is funny and very telling of many of us. Enjoy... Are You a Christia...

Now this is just cute! I would love to see if mine got into something like this. Imagine all the exercise they would get and there’d be no damage throwing a ball around the house, yes, I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

The first words I heard when I answered the phone were, “Don’t be alarmed!� Funny, until that very moment I had no idea there was anything to be alarmed about. Though, in fact, I wasn’t alarmed, because I recognized the caller’s voice. It was Rachel. Rachel has called us perhaps two dozen ...

This photograph of Dick Cheney skulking in the bushes while W. speaks in today's New York Times is absolutely hilarious....

This photograph of Dick Cheney skulking in the bushes while W. speaks in today's New York Times is absolutely hilarious....

So, I got me a MacBook. It is just lovely. BUT it is going to take awhile to get used to. The keys are really big and far apart, which for a one-handed typist like me is very difficult. I got pretty damn fast at my left-handed typing on my desktop; [...]...