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It didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. But there I was, straining at what would be, in any other context, considered television static. Dark, light and all the gray fuzz in between. Then, with a little help from the nurse, I caught a little pacman-esque blip in the center of the... Read More
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Anyone who’s spent any time on the Internet knows there is a growing sentiment of hatred towards religion. Spend a few moments perusing Digg or the Huffington Post and you’ll find droves of people decrying the evils of religion, religious thought or faith in general. In fact, one of the most common forms of this... Read More
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File this under the “wish after the fact that I had taken a photo but too tragic at the moment to get one” category. For lunch today we ate a frozen pizza. Oh don’t worry, we cooked it first. In fact, right after we pulled it out of the stove, we put it on one... Read More
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Birth: A Fate Worse Than Death
From today’s AP Wire, Clinton Criticizes Obama in NH Mailer: MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizes rival Barack Obama’s record on abortion rights in a mailing sent to New Hampshire voters. The mailer says that seven times during his time in the Illinois state Senate, Obama declined to take a position on... Read More
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Well, those of you savvy enough to follow my Twitter notifications caught my premature notification last week that mysteriously vanished; but now I can officially say it out loud. We’re having a baby! He/she/it is due in August and I’ve got $20 says it’s twins. Jessica, of course, begs to differ. And (as if I... Read More
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Mike Huckabee just pulled an impressive 9 point lead over Mitt Romney to win the Iowa caucus, the first in what looks to be a long, drawn-out campaign season. I’m sure there’s a good deal of disagreement about him, even among people reading this site. But I’ve found him to be a thoughtful, reasonable candidate... Read More
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Would Jesus Care About The Cake?
“The poor you have with you always…” Matthew 26:11 I must have missed the “always” somewhere in previous readings. But they came back today. Yeah, the couple living on disability I wrote about last year who were sleeping on benches and needed food and money. They scared me out of an email-induced stupor when they... Read More
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If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. Moslih Eddin Saadi, Gulistan (Garden of Roses)
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Hello, New Year, my old friend. Glad to see you made your way back to the present with our good pal Rudolph and didn’t get snatched up by that nasty vulture Eon. Don’t worry, I have big ears too! Ahh, what a welcoming celebration we had! (At our church? A good time?! Wha…?) We kicked... Read More
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I didn’t take pictures, so you’ll have to use your imagination. My wife and I were just sitting down to quesadillas and an episode of West Wing. We had just failed our first attempt to make cheese (who knew that too much heat during the curdling process would turn mozzarella into ricotta?) and we needed... Read More
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Matt Drudge, editor of the widely-read Drudge Report, has revealed just how low he’ll stoop when he doesn’t like someone. Drudge’s attacks on Mike Huckabee in recent days has revealed just how much of a tabloid his site is. Today he attacks Huckabee’s most recent Christmas campaign video with this headline: Huckabee Ad Features ‘Floating... Read More
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Cardboard White was a good idea. I wanted it to be a central place where people could get together and start up their own conversations on anything and everything. But a few things happened that I hadn’t thought about: Forums stopped being trendy. I attribute this in part to the boom in large social networks... Read More
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Writing Your Own Autobiography: The New Persistence of Information
How A Biography Gets Written When someone sets out to write a biography, they don’t just pick up a pen and start writing. A good deal of research has to happen before the author can begin writing. Usually, the biographer will dig up letters, books, news clippings, articles and anything else they can find to,... Read More
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The Boy & The Girl: The Abridged Edition
Speaking of birthdays… When Jessica and I got engaged, I wrote a rather lengthy, sentimental account of our story up to that point entitled The Boy & The Girl. Well, there’s nothing overly nostalgic about a 24th birthday or the two-year, five-month and three week anniversary of our wedding; so I decided to celebrate Jessica’s... Read More
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Happy Birthday, Emma Ariel Gardner
Last night, my very first niece was born… 8lbs., 3oz. and 20”. Congratulations to Nathan, Jessica, Gabe and Caleb on the brand new addition to their family—and the very first Gardner baby girl! Emma Ariel Gardner, 11/27/07 Note: People have been asking, so I’ll answer it here for everyone’s sake. I’m married to a Jessica.... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
