No I was not particularly curious about a book that was widely panned as terrible and lacking all literary value. No I am not interested in a movie that makes lurid a woman being used to realize the sado-masochist fantasies of someone rich and powerful. The billboards, and movie stills that seem to be everywhere…
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Have you ever heard, “it was like a game of cat and mouse?” I have, and it has never been in the context of the larger, stronger party spending an afternoon torturing the smaller party and then finally eating their head. Maybe it was a strategic negotiation and one side had a lot more power,…
To “help” means to assist someone in moving in a particular direction or to serve someone food or drink, so perhaps it is not reasonable to expect someone to respond in a helpful way if the help we are asking for does not fall into one of those categories. Over time the word “help” has come to connote much…
I love the Miss Manners column. It is admittedly part schadenfreude and part uppity judgement, but there is another part that is closer to self-improvement to make sure I’m not part of the broader social etiquette decline. Sure some of the directives are anachronistic and just don’t make sense for the 99% of us who…
(tales of the animals part 6) None of my pets speak English. In fact they don’t speak any language at all save however it is that they communicate in their species specific way. The cats speak cat, the dogs speak dog that seems to be about it. Any yet there is a lot of cross-species…
…by being married for almost twenty years. I get a annoyed by the surfeit of ‘top ten’ blog posts on lessons for marriage from the first year. I’m not suggesting you can’t learn anything in your first year being married, but if you take your advice from just the first year you are going to…
I was curious when I saw the headline “These 4 rules will let you know when it is okay to lie.” ‘Oh really,’ I thought, ‘someone has figured out when it is no longer bad to be dishonest and how to avoid the slippery slope that follows the white-lies are okay crowd.’ I read the…
(Tales of the Animals Part 3 – or so) One of the dogs is totally self-realized. She knows what she likes, she manages her own happiness and while she cares deeply about the people around her she does a great job of owning her own feelings. One of the dogs is extremely co-dependent, and I…
To say that love is complicated seems like an almost ridiculous understatement. We can look at the definition and assess our relationships against that defined criteria, and yet there remains an intangible element that exists only as a feeling. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t, our “love” for one person is different than our “love”…
Faith Works 