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You Can’t Make a Livin’ Without Swingin’ that Door

You Can’t Make a Livin’ Without Swingin’ that Door

Please pardon, my dear readers, my absence these past weeks.  But, big things are afoot and now you get to be regaled with the tale. In short, I’ve taken an official “leave of absence” from my graduate program and have taken a full time job at a prominent medical school in the Midwest.  The decision [...]

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Getting A Baby to Eat

Getting A Baby to Eat

Sometimes, babies don’t want to eat.  Sometimes, when babies don’t want to eat, they spit their food all over a carpet that already desperately needs to be replaced.  Eventually, you have a tapestry of green carpet and orange carpet and brown carpet that is a majestic sunset of filth. At any rate, at times my [...]

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Corporal Works of Mercy

Corporal Works of Mercy

Over the past few months, we’ve been trying to find increasingly creative ways to make money.  Not that we are trying to prepare for anything in particular… not like we will have a sudden need for money in say, oh, 6 months… But, ever since the dryer went out in July, we’ve been trying to [...]

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Things You NEVER Say to an Expecting Mother

Things You NEVER Say to an Expecting Mother

Here is a list of things you should never say to a woman who you just learned is pregnant… if you value your life, you will heed the warnings of this list… 1.  Was this… planned…? 2.  Any sentence with the word “belly” in it 3.  Will this be your last one? 4.  Oh, are [...]

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“Blow up your TV, Throw Away Your Paper…”

“Blow up your TV, Throw Away Your Paper…”

Our family does not own a TV.  After reading John Senior’s The Restoration of Christian Culture, my wife and I decided that the TV was something we didn’t want in our home.  We’ve had several offers for a free TV, one from my generous cousin, another from my wife’s parents.  Each time, we turned the [...]

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On Baseball

On Baseball

As the early spring snows have melted away and the grass seems a bit greener, I am starting to get excited for opening day of major league baseball.  Every time the weather breaks the 50 degree barrier, my mind turns to baseball.  Just two weeks from now, the season will begin for the 162 game [...]

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