Bailing on the Bailout

I haven’t written too much about the current financial crisis/bailout/circus of late, partly because I’m still trying to figure it all out, and partly because I’ve written before about the problem of big government handling anything. While I love being right, I hate being redundant.
I was not in favor of a bailout, yet assumed it [...]

No Excuses

I have no excuses for my lack of content the past week, so I’ll offer the same explanation one of my students gave this morning concerning a paper due today:
“I didn’t procrastinate until last night.”
There you have it. Keep reading: one day I’ll write something.

September’s Third Weekend

For as long as I can remember, my hometown of Griggsville, IL (population 1,300 and self-proclaimed “Purple Martin Capital of the Nation“), has always hosted its annual Apple Festival on the third weekend of September.
Put briefly for my more urban readers, the Apple Festival is a semi-epic celebration of small town life, complete with more [...]

Getting Out of Dodge

Yesterday I asked my friend and bookstore boss, Nick, how he was doing. His response: “Life’s winning.” Seeing as how I feel the same way, we’re heading to the farm this weekend for the Griggsville Apple Festival (and a break).
Megan jokes that the Apple Festival should be renamed the “Corn Dog Festival,” as there’s nary an apple [...]

How We Know What We Know

I’ve been reading some really good stuff of late on epistemology (that is, “how we know what we know”). With regard to truth, most people feel the pull of the Enlightenment’s demand for proof, as well as postmodernism’s questioning that truth can even exist. Many people (kids especially) feel caught in the middle between what [...]

Hurricane Ike Hits…St. Louis?

The remains of Hurricane Ike blew through the Midwest late last night and early this morning, downing a tree limb in our backyard, taking out power at our church (we worshipped by candlelight), and flooding the basement of the building that houses the More Than Carpentry ministry our church helps support in Wellston (to answer [...]

NKOTB

They’re coming…and I’m as excited about their music as I was the first time around.
(That is, not very.)

So Maybe I Reacted a Bit

I came across this post from Thomas Nelson CEO Michael Hyatt twice this morning, so I thought I’d see why people were linking to it. The post (on modesty) is fine, but I may have let my better judgment slip in leaving my comment (normally I would just roll my eyes and move on). What do [...]

Bedtime

Daddy: (tucking in a six- and four-year-old) Good night.
Four-year-old: Daddy, can I have a drink of water?
Six-year-old: Me, too?
Daddy: (sighing) Girls, in the future, you need to get a drink of water when you brush your teeth.
Six-year-old: But we can’t know the future.
Daddy: (getting the water) Good point.

Being the Minority in the Sorority

Similar to last Friday, I’m suffering from a campaign hangover after the Republican National Convention (I didn’t even watch Senator McCain last night – yawn). With 60 days to go, it’s time for a political break.
In trying to write about what I’ve been thinking of late, I confess I’m at a loss: I’ve not been [...]

Don and the Dems

Author Donald Miller has a new website and blog. Miller gave the benediction on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver and, though I’m always a little leery when evangelicals cozy up to the Left (for the same reasons I get leery when evangelicals cozy up to the Right), I liked [...]

A Funeral I’d Rather Miss

In a comment on my previous post, Ed points out that, “Everything you’ve blogged about the political process has been ambivalent, indifferent, or mildly disgusted.”
I’ll own up to the observations. I’m weary of enduring two years of campaigning to get what we get in the end (and don’t even get me started on the millions [...]