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Category: gender

  • Supergirl Movie

    Supergirl Movie

    On the insistence of my youngest, I took my two daughters to a matinee of the new, live action Supergirl movie. Unfortunately, we were disappointed by this film. It’s very dark and it spends the first hour of the movie making Supergirl pretty unlikable. Nothing feels fresh: it’s 1/3 Handcock, 1/3 John Wick and 1/3…

  • Man versus Baby

    Over the years, I have heard men complain that women have friend-zoned them. By the accusatory tone, I guess they are using friend-zone to mean when a woman leads on a man with attention, but when they try to make a move, the woman says, “Oh you’re just a friend.” Recently, I remembered an incident…

  • Softball Season

    We attended our first high school softball game yesterday. Years ago, I played adult, slow-pitch, coed, city D-league, and have watched local farm-team baseball, but I didn’t know what the high school girls rules were. Here is a quick primer.  This was fast underhand pitch and the game play was tight. First off, there are only…

  • 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…

  • 1 Corinthians 11: Under Cover Prayers

    Paul starts out the chapter encouraging the reader to emulate him because he is emulating Christ. While it seems bold to put himself in front, his point is that we all are looking to those who has gone ahead us to show us the way. Likewise, people behind us see us. We have a responsibility…

  • Better than Fiction 

    Back when I was dating during the aughts, I noticed a phenomenon where I had a tendency to fill in gaps in getting to know a person with best case/worst case scenarios. When things were going well, then any lack of knowledge or understanding was filled with hopes and dreams. Later, if things were going…

  • Finding Peace with Paul

    Finding Peace with Paul

    When I went to graduate school two decades ago, it was through a program where I taught English overseas during the school year and studied at home in the summer. Neat, right? I did all the courses to graduate, but at the end, I still needed three prerequisite Bible courses that the Christian college required,…

  • Boomtown

    Today I am going to talk about economics. Not that I am necessarily qualified to do so, I only took two classes in it. My maternal grandmother on the other hand, majored in economics and graduated with a degree in it, from Berkeley, in the 1930s  Can you imagine what that was like? Studying about…

  • The Greatest

    Last night I couldn’t sleep and ended up reading the book whole of Book Matthew. With all the talk of presidents and popes, it was time for a little bit of faith-checking.  Matthew is only 28 short chapters long. Reading it in one go shifted my perspective. There’s not very much of the Christmas story—just…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…