Ah, what a winner, Pastis. Tackles the big issues and all. If you are not a Pearls before Swine fan yet, this is a great one to start with and then click on some links to other strips at the bottom - this is some fun stuff: [For another Pearls before Swine strip with a touch of Dr Seuss, click here] [For a growing collection of some of my favourite recent Pearls before Swine [...]
When my friend Deborah's post on 'What my Single Friends would like their Married Friends to know' hit 1000 views, i figured that people were interested in what she had to say and so it would be worth seeing if she was up to writing a piece for the Taboo Topic on Singleness and turns out, she was... Stages of Singleness When I was 18 years old, I attended my very first Singles Camp. Contrary [...]
On the 9th of May Brenton and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, although we mark being together for 11 years more strongly. Our relationship still continues to grow, evolve, settle, change, as we ourselves do. Here is one thing I think we got right. Very soon in our relationship we had a big bump. Something came up that neither of us knew how to deal with and we had a silent, sleepless and [...]
wait, what it's only day 5 and i already don't want to write another one? i realised last nite that a huge danger of coming up with 40 days of Lent observance activities is the creativity of the idea usurping the actuality of the practical nature of the observance... wait, are you actually going to do that? that's a lot of thankfulness and gratitude you're calling the people to [in day 3's Lent Observance] two days [...]
i hope that you are continung to enjoy our observance of Lent - never too late, so if you just found this now, feel free to dive in and join with us as we try to slow things down a little and add some more meaning to these 40 days... DAY 4 Task: Look out the window until you find something of beauty you had not noticed before. if you have a camera [or a tablet, [...]
Wendy and I have been married since December 2004 but in some ways it seems so much longer because we have done so much since then, including immigrating (twice) and starting a business. And let me tell you, those are both very stressful, and stress is not good for a marriage. I think that what I have realised about marriage is that it is not always a feeling but a choice. You choose to be [...]
i hope that you are enjoying our observance of Lent and if you have just joined us - as some have - it is good to have you along - never to late to jump on this train and see where it goes. i read an excellent piece on Lent on Relevant Magazine today and if you have some time, give it a read. Zachary Perkins gives a broader definition and picture of the idea [...]
Kev and I met in 2000, and started dating shortly afterwards. In 2002 I was diagnosed with a (thankfully non cancerous) tumour on my pituitary gland situated in the centre of the head just below the brain and behind the nose and eyes. Over the next few years Kev was a great support through numerous tests and scans and especially when I had my first brain surgery in 2004. After seeing the doctor a few [...]
Father, as i sit outside on the cold step and try for a moment to be still and to focus on You i am reminded of the Truth that You are SO BIG and i am so very small it feels like there has been such a great distance between us You and me and I know for absolutely sure that none of that is because You have stepped away i have just felt lost [...]
Love (along with dating and of course mating eek) is a complicated beast, even more so when you are a Christian trying to forge a life(style) for one in a world that feels like it’s mostly built for twos. Navigating rights and wrongs can be enough to derail any fledgling flirtation and the pressure us singletons put on ourselves to ‘get things right’ can be so overwhelming at times because when really is the right [...]