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Lent- Day 21: Silence is golden.
Me in 2012 enjoying some early morning quiet. When Zoe was a baby, I would sneak out around 6AM, while she and K were still asleep. I’d high tail it to the car, get in like it was an actual escape, and drive off in a hury. I’d stop for coffee and drive to a…
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Lent- Day 20: Before Christ, no one is anonymous.
(Source) Today’s hotest video features Kanye West, but it’s most definitely not Yeezus approved. Before I continue, if you’re sick of me mentioning Mr. West so much during these Lenten posts, my apologies. He keeps popping up here because, dagnabit, these dude is making headlines like Lindsey Lohan circa 2007. It’s kind of…
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Lent- Day 19: What happens to hope deferred?
What a day. In between a trip to the bank and my weekly IVIG session, I hung out with a couple of friends discussing life, love and having babies. One friend is pregnant; the other would like to be. This is the first kid for friend one, while friend two has no kids. In…
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Lent- Day 18: The sea of forgetfulness is better than the valley of the dolls.
Over the weekend I started watching the cancelled Fox show “Dollhouse”, available for streaming on Netflix. It came highly recommended by my brother Joe, who didn’t even have to “Sherlock” me into watching it. If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s a quick primer from Wikipedia: The show revolves around a corporation running…
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Lent- Day 17- My spirit faints.
(Source) As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the Israelites. Why, after God delivered them out of slavery in Egypt, would they so quickly turn to making a golden calf to worship as a god? And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, the minute they get their first real challenge, they started complaining “Oh,…
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Lent- Day 16: Ponderings of the heart.
Zoe in 2013. The pout is strong in this one. Around Zoe’s second birthday, we took her for a check-up at the pediatrician. She wass weighed, measured and given shots. Thankfully, she didn’t scream while receiving the inoculations. She was clearly unhappy, and cried a bit, but it was in a “Hey, that…
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Lent- Day 15: Platinum fighter jets and withered grass.
(People) Kanye’s missus revealed new platinum blond locks in Paris yesterday while attending Fashion Week. Kim is styled by her other half, and he seems to like her looking very edgey. I… I… well, I hate it. Like majorly. But my opinion is irrelevant. People reports that, The last time Kardashian lightened…
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Lent- Day 14: The last (and first) man on Earth.
Will Forte as Phil Miller in Fox’s “The Last Man on Earth” (Source) Today I watched the new Fox show “The Last Man on Earth”. It stars Will Forte as Phil Miller, a guy who survives a massive epidemic in the year 2020. He’s left in a silently creepy world, filling his time…
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Lent- Day 13: Broken record records.
Drake (Billboard); cover art for his latest smash album (Time) From Forbes: This week, Canadian rapper Drake has fourteen tracks in the Hot 100, the Billboard chart that measures the one hundred most popular songs in the country across all genres, using an algorithm that combines radio play, sales, and some streaming…
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Lent- Day 12: Trashed teddies and trust.
I snapped the picture above while out running errands this afternoon. I spotted what Zoe calls “The sad teddy bear on the ice” set out for trash. Filthy, wet and torn, I felt sad looking at it. Zoe had brought her stuffed Curious George along for the outing, and I couldn’t help but compare…
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