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  • Godspell

    Godspell

    Vulture published an article last week interviewing Victor Garber, the actor who played Jesus in both the Toronto stage play and the Hollywood production of Godspell in the early 1970s. Apparently the stage cast included Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner, several of the famous funny people that I grew up watching…

  • A Mighty Whine

    Today is the first day I have not had a cough in three weeks, maybe four. Being medium sick is such a drag, especially when you are a Mom. It was a head cold I got hit with on a Friday that ran the most of February. By week two, it settled into my lungs…

  • Anything but Beige 

    A doctor asked me yesterday if anyone in our family has been diagnosed with mental health issues. The short answer is no, but the long answer goes like this: If you gave me a list of all the different things that one would associate with ADHD, autism, OCD, anxiety, depression, hyperactive or ultra focused, I…

  • H-A-double P-I-N-E-double S

    Our women’s study is going through the “Every Thought Captive” book by Kyle Idleman. This week we are reading about the pleasure fallacy where people pursue things that make them feel good, only to find themselves worse off. He’s right, in an attempt to make ourselves feel better we binge eat, binge watch, and binge…

  • Children’s Stories

    Something fun to do in Oregon is to visit the Enchanted Forest outside of Salem. Built into a wooded mountain side, kids can interact with various Grimm fairy tales before their Disney glow-up. I went as a kid and I’ve taken my daughters several times as well. They have a cute Humpty Dumpty, scenes from…

  • The Greatest Musical

    I just watched the Greatest Showman again this weekend. The music is wonderful and the message is still pertinent. First, you see P.T. Barnum rising through poverty to make something of himself. While he becomes massively successful, he’s still not satisfied until the press and the “Swells” love him too. The problem is that not…