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  • Captain & First Mate

    Captain & First Mate

    Yesterday Tim and I got a rare chance to lunch together. In the summer we had the kids and the rest of the time Tim is usually driving over the road. Instead, we had the rare combination of the kids at school and him driving locally. It felt like back when we were dating before…

  • Exodus 1: Call the Midwives

    The second book of the Bible begins with a recitation of the twelve son of Israel. Then it reminds the reader that only 70 descendants came into Egypt to join Joseph. The story is now picking up several generations later. The family of Israel has increased during their 400 years of living in Egypt.  The…

  • Perennials 

    Perennials 

    I didn’t grow up with sisters, but I did have girl cousins. One lived in the same town when we were very young and it bonded us early on. Then our parents fell out with each other and we didn’t see each other much over the time of our middle and teen years.  We sort…

  • Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn

    Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn

    In case you’re under the impression that the Old Testament is shy about human sexuality, here is a rated R story that is fully cancelable by modern standards. Leah’s fourth son, Judah had three sons with Shua, a Canaanite, who named them Er, Onan and Shelah. A young woman named Tamar is married the eldest…

  • Caring Twice in a Row

    Caring Twice in a Row

    I posted on Facebook recently that I had gotten an iron infusion to help with my anemia. But I didn’t talk about was how I was originally diagnosed and why it took so long to fix.  Two and a half years ago our church hosted a blood drive. Before the Red Cross takes your blood,…

  • 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…

  • Body of Work

    As I am approaching my fiftieth birthday this year, I was disappointed to see that my weight that had gone down from focused intermittent fasting, has crept back up. For two years, I checked the clock before I let myself eat. Then I quit looking because, honestly, I didn’t have the bandwidth.  Last month was…

  • 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…

  • Genesis 21: Promises in the Desert

    As promised, God visited Sarah and she became pregnant with Abraham’s child. A son was born when God said it would. Abraham and Sarah named the child Isaac meaning laughter, because they had both laughed when they were told they were going to have a child at age 100.  Sarah did not appreciate the fact…

  • Genesis 16: Seen

    After living in Canaan for ten years, Abram and Sarai still do not have a child. Sarai plans to make her Egyptian servant Hagar sleep with her husband in order to obtain one. Abram agrees and Hagar gets pregnant. It’s almost the perfect solution.  Hagar looks at Sarai with contempt and Sarai complains to Abram.…