Our whole lives we are given statistics and numbers.  We read them in the newspaper, we hear them in school, we get them forwarded in emails.  Drugs, abortion, endangered animals, divorces, poverty, whatever.  We become numb to it all and the numbers don’t mean anything anymore.   We don’t really understand how much a thousand or a million really is, anyway. 
Our brains [...]

Yesterday, as I was packing up my car to leave Massillon and come back to Columbus for Thanksgiving with the Fredericks, my dad gave me a sermon series to listen to, called “Too Small to Ignore” from RiverTree.  “It’s good,” he said, “It’s about kids.”
I was thinking, kids… parenting…. hmm… I guess this might come in [...]

Boys.

Snails.

The lovely Ann at Dawes.

Ann said that it reminds her of Jane Austin books, and it kinda does. Doesn’t it.

I really enjoy reading old headstones.

Jumping Picture. I haven’t taken one of these in a while.

I love him so very much.

My fake henna tatoo, drawn with markers.

I got tagged by Ann, so I am supposed [...]

And then — just between you and me —
I take a swallow of cold tea
and in the manner of the ancient Chinese
pick up my pen
and write down that bird I hear outside,
the one that sings,
pauses,
then sings again.
— In the Room of a Thousand Miles. Billy Collins.
I am reading a poetry book by Billy Collins called, [...]

Photo of the day:

On average…
1 American child consumes the same amount as….
2 Japanese children
6 Mexican children
13 Chinese children
32 Indian children
and 372 Somalian children.
Tommorow.. The Stills and Jason Collett.

This is sort of a secret, but yesterday I acquired a global positioning device, the SGM-005, that can give me the precise location of any person, place or thing in pretty much the whole world. Yesterday, I used it to locate our very lost Donato’s Pizza. Today I used it to track down my cell [...]