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Category: entertainment

  • Spring Broken

    There is some expectation built up around spring break. Maybe from television and movies, but it’s been hard week as a Stay at Home Mom. I had the kids home from elementary school and preschool with only one car that Tim required for his daily commute. Our trusty Accord has been spending its break camping…

  • Seaside

    The Oregon coast was made for kids and dogs. Where Cannon Beach has an aesthetic of Coastal Grandma, with its blown glass art galleries and overpriced surf and turf eateries, Seaside is 100% State Fair with its painted carousel and Pronto pups. After a quick bite of pizza, kids made a beeline to the beach…

  • Bachelor Blues

    One of the things that Tim and I do to bond is to share a show together. The current one is a comedy called “The Bachelor.” The premise is that a man tries to date twenty women at the same time. I can not believe this show is still going. It has been on for…

  • Fifteen Minutes

    Let me tell you about the time I was a little bit famous. When I graduated with my shiny journalism degree in the late nineties, the world was in the middle of a massive transition from paper to electronic mass communication. For local papers, it meant people no longer paid for news that they could…

  • Silence

    I just watched the 2016 Scorsese film about the persecuted church of Japan in the 17th century. Historically, the number of Christians in Japan fell through direct, intensive violence. Many of the conversions had come through Portuguese Catholic missionaries who not only brought faith, but also emphasized Western practices, traditions and language that threatened the…

  • Halfway Out

    I managed to listen to Jinger Duggar Voulo’s book “Becoming Free Indeed” while being a stay-at-home mom this week. Billed as a tell-all book, it barely covers any of the behind-the-scenes of the Duggar household, but instead is focused on being a takedown of Bill Gothard’s Institute of Basic Life Principles. The audiobook is read…

  • Falling From Fame

    I keep hearing people talk/complain about cancel culture and I think there is a lot of nuance being lost in the conversation. First let’s sort out the criminals. Sometimes a popular or influential person commits a crime so they lose both legal status and popular status. The compounding factor is that they may have leveraged…

  • How to make Sense of the Bible

    Every year, there’s a bunch of folks who set out to read the Bible cover-to-cover in a year, but often don’t make it. They start out in Genesis, and get through creation and the flood. It’s rough, but kind of interesting. Exodus is exciting with Moses and his miracles, but then they hit Leviticus. Ugh,…

  • The Games

    I just finished listening to the latest installment of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and I have thoughts. While the first three books focused on Katniss Everdeen and her heroic journey, this book looks back at the formative years of Coriolanus Snow and his slide into villainy. His character in the first three…

  • The Mall Y’all

    Saturday is our family day and yesterday it was rare treat to have sunshine so late in the year. I was hoping to get a family hike in, but the thing about kids is that they don’t always do as you expect. My girls rejected the idea of hiking and instead fixated on going to…