Multiple Snow Days: Associated Risks

The use of snow days, while intoxicating and restful, can become dangerous if it becomes habitual. Be aware of the following symptoms of snow day overdose: 1. The making of elaborate breakfasts: no more cereal. No more oatmeal. No more eggs! Okay, but French toast cooked in butter IS better than all those. 2. Knowing […]

Money (That’s What I Want)

There’s this scene called “Dad paying the bills” that we all know. (Yours might be called “Mom,” or “Grandpa,” but it’s quite similar.) In this scene, you have a note from your teacher at school that explains how you have screwed up, and Mom tells you, “Oh, not now. Dad’s paying the bills.” What does […]

Houses and Graves

No one else on the FDR home tour was about to wet herself with excitement like I was. He sat in this room! That was his lamp! He pulled himself up this dumbwaiter! (He did– even long after electricity, both to keep himself in shape and to assure himself he could evacuate in case of fire.) Inside the house is neat– but you have to stay with your tour guide to make sure no one spits on the floor. Outside the house is even better.

Annotated Bibliography: Inevitable Crime, Gifts of the Mediocre, and Stepping up for Jesus

Since… there is a ‘law’ governing the amount of crime in a society, moral responsibility for crime must lie with society and not with the individual criminal. “It is society that prepares the crime and … the guilty person is only the instrument who executes it,” is the rather dramatic way he expressed it. People […]