by the Night Writer I don’t think I’ve ever written much about “sexy” on this blog, but I’ll tell you now that when it comes to music I think Annie Lennox’s voice is the sexiest I’ve ever heard on a recording. She could generate chemistry by singing the elemental tables, and she could sing the [...]
I sat on the edge of the bed and looked down at the gun in my right hand. It was black, with a dull gleam, a scent of oil and cordite. It wasn’t beautiful, it wasn’t ugly, it didn’t look like anything other than what it was…functional — and with a very specific function. “My [...]
I came across this poem in time for “Blogs for Choice Day” today: Middle-Age by Pat Schneider The child you think you don’t want is the one who will make you laugh. She will break your heart when she loses the sight in one eye and tells the doctor she wants to be an apple [...]
I was talking to my sister-in-law the other day and she said her husband, who’s been at his job for more than 20 years, has been bumped back to the night shift by someone with even more seniority. “I’m trying to keep a good attitude about it,” she said, “because, after all, at least it’s [...]
Back when Dennis Miller was one of the undefined on Monday Night Football, ABC found it necessary after games to post explanations of the eclectic comedian’s erudite references on the MNF website. I was reminded of this after yesterday’s Day by Day cartoon featured a lonely statue of Al Gore in a snowy wasteland, with [...]
An interesting excerpt from the foreward of the book Amusing Ourselves To Death. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of [...]
For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world. (1 John 2:16, NLT) Earlier this month I happened across an article about a study looking at the impact the media has [...]
“Right is still right, even if nobody is doing it. Wrong is still wrong, even if everybody is doing it.” –- St. Augustine Tuesday’s post about the role and necessity of hope reminded me of something I wrote way back in the early days of this blog about having integrity. Having hope is an important [...]
by the Night Writer When my oldest daughter was born, nigh on 20 years ago, they put that tiny little bundle in my arms — arms that had, just a few hours earlier, been lifting furniture and heavy equipment in the delivery room as I tried to vent my anxiety and frustration. The contrast between [...]
I was too busy vacationing last week to contribute an entry to this week’s Manival, and I’ve been so busy with other things this week that I’m a little slow in calling your attention to this week’s host, I Am Husband. If you’ll go over there you’ll see that the carnival is doing quite well [...]
