This is a cross-post from my personal blog; I'm copying it here for Erich, so he can argue with me. I'm bored at work; I think an argument would help. An atheist organization has filed suit over Obama’s plan to be sworn in on a Bible, for God to be…
I haven't posted here in a loooong time. So sorry - but have been in the midst of life and starting a blog of my own, which covers more parenting stuff, just life stuff, than anything. I have committed to a group of friends to write a post a day…
It's easy to call Cookie Thorton a madman. No one in his or her right mind would walk into a civilized city council meeting and open fire - we can all agree on that. But by writing this week's shooting in Kirkwood off as the aberrant act of a crazed…
What happens when you forget to mention something important to your spouse? When you are running late or distracted, for any number of reasons? Bills get paid late because you forgot to ask him to mail them, Johnny misses soccer practice because you forgot to tell Dad he needed to…
Another headline, another senseless tragedy. During a week full of them, this one hardly caused a blip on my radar, except that it happened here. First I read that a group of teens forced a boy to watch his mother repeatedly raped, then have sex with her himself at gunpoint.…