My Book Review on the Shackwhy The Shack is cheese to a good wine. (by which I am a hypocrite because I like a $3 bottle of champagne and cheddar cheese so this analogy doesn't apply to me, but in the worldly sense of people who have good taste I plunge forward with my now awkward analogy.)Good wine is something to relish, to enjoy and savor. The Shack isn't that. It's the complementary cheese to … [Read more...]
the lows.
July 30, 2008 by · 4 Comments
I have done some things on this trip in my hotel room that I have never done before while in a hotel room. "Whooh, Heidi, TMI!" you say, but NO, THAT is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about something much tamer: I have laid on the bedspread. I know! Wild and crazy! I don't ever do that because of lovely 20/20 investigates. Darn that show and the way they make me a germophob! Another … [Read more...]
Pascal and Me. (Warning: Soapbox!)
March 26, 2008 by · 2 Comments
Philosophy was always my favorite subject in High School and College. I loved all the logic and the way you could argue your points and be right. If only life were like my philosophy class! I try that with Ben and I can be "right" but still very wrong. My favorite philosopher was Blaise Pascal and I didn't know until this year that he was a Christian Philosopher when I discovered he wrote one of … [Read more...]
More pirate (pics.!) and a normal posting turned into a RANT!
February 21, 2008 by · 3 Comments
Summit is trying to crawl today. He just started doing it out of nowhere and I wish he wouldn't. Not in the cutsie way of "Oh, my Johnny is crawling and gets into everything" -the pretend dismay at the cleverness of their child. NO, I mean it like "Oh, Summit does a face plant every time he tries to go from sitting to crawling and then screams". Ha ha!!! Not, ha ha in the sense that I'm laughing … [Read more...]