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Fridays Are For One Question

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Soon, community groups will start up again through our church. We will host one of these groups in our home, and if it’s like last year, we are going to have a lot of kids there. A LOT of kids. The way we do kids at our groups is that the adults take turns doing [...]

Fridays Are For One Question

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Earlier this week I posted a video that I think is pretty descriptive of Nascar. The truth is, I just don’t get it. Watching cars go in circles for hours? I’ve had numerous people try and explain to me the ins and outs and nuances of tire choices, drafting, and choosing when to pit. But [...]

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A few years ago, we tried to read The Chronicles of Narnia to the kids. It did not go well. Older English, 15 page chapters – it was not a “jolly good” time. But now things have changed. We are two chapters into The Magician’s Nephew. Andi is a little disturbed that Polly is missing, [...]

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I’m about to write a sentence that I never thought I would: We are considering a family pet. There I said. It’s out there. Joshua’s birthday is coming up, and for some reason, he has decided that the future of the civilized world depends on him getting a small rodent of some kind. Gerbil, hamster, [...]

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2011: The summer of the s’more. That is one way I would characterize our family’s summer up to this point. We built a fire pit in the backyard, and at least once a week have toasted marshmallows. That’s led to all sorts of other decisions on our part, including a perhaps ill-advised purchase of an [...]

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Tomorrow night, Jana and I will go to see some band from Ireland or something. I don’t know – I don’t really get into concerts that much. In fact, I dare say that there’s nothing like a concert that makes “old man Michael” out: “They didn’t put these chairs here so we could stand on top [...]

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It seems to get earlier and earlier every year. Not that time when Christmas decorations go up, but campaigning for the presidency. Here we are, well over a year and a half out, and the buzzards are circling… Today’s question is not about who you would vote for. It’s about slogans. For example, I don’t [...]

Fridays Are For One Question

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Today I’m going to do something dangerous. I’m going to try and re-stain our deck. Dangerous, you say? It doesn’t sound that way. Oh, but it is. At least for me. For, you see, I have an innate ability to turn a home project into something it was never intended to be. I am the [...]

Fridays Are For One Question

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The five Kelleys are bunked together in one hotel room this morning. As I look around right now, I think I’m going to leave a 20 on the nightstand as an apology to the cleaning crew. But there is one, very clear advantage to being in a hotel – at least according to my kids: [...]

Fridays Are For One Question

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“It’s freezing out here.” That is one sentence I will not say today. In Tennessee right now, you walk outside and it feels like someone wrapped a wool blanket around your head and threw rocks at you (that’s the dive-bombing cicadas). Therefore, I’m not likely to comment on how cold it is. What about you? [...]

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