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A Nice Dinner

Stephen took me out for a very nice dinner for our anniversary.The restaurant had a table that was away from all the other tables, tucked in a little nook up in the front of the restaurant. It was one of those window no…
How Do I Love Thee?

It's hard, after fourteen years of marriage, to come up with specific reasons why one is glad to have married one's spouse. Fourteen years of marital bliss requires a pretty good package deal, know what I mean?But I sha…
Books in Review

I don't know whether it is more a mark of the excellence of his mind or the poverty of mine, but in taking notes on Wendell Berry's What Are People For?, I find that I am doing less notetaking than simple retyping.At eve…
Walking Wounded

In the past week, I have:1) Fallen down the stairs and seriously bruised my coccyx.2) Sliced my finger open from a broken milk bottle.and 3) Splashed boiling water onto my face and chest.Stephen's first response to each …
Speaking of Calvinists and Wesleyans . . .

I have to reveal that the reason Theo was eight months old before he was baptized had almost nothing to do with my failure to complete his baptismal garment before then.Well, okay, it had a little to do with that.But my …
Doesn't that look great?

I love home repair.From every angle.Ahem. Yes. The wallpaper. Right.Well, we've stripped the wallpaper in both bathrooms. And that's an actual "we," not a wifey-taking-credit-for-her-hubby's-work "we." I did the mas…
On Marriage and Technology

"Ohhhhhh.""Ahhhhhh.""Mmmmmmmm.""My word!""Ohhhh myyyy goodness.""Uh, Mommy, what are you and Daddy doing?""Uh, nothing dear. Quick, honey--hide it! Hide it!""You're eating ice cream!!!!""He caught us dear."Yes, it's t…
Two Different Minds

Two days ago, two theologian/ethicists, residing in the same home, on the same street, in the same town, in the same doctoral school, facing the same anxiety-inducing hazing ritual (sure, they like to dress it up and cal…