Month: July 2004

  • T-shirt quilt

    My daughter cut up all her husband’s favorite T-shirts. She also cut up her own. Maybe the fact that they each owned enough T-shirts to fill a drawer explains why it look her five hours to accomplish the deed. That and she was trying to cut out the T-shirt logos in squares to make a…

  • Living by convictions

    The right to live by one’s personal convictions – even if they are not popular – made the headlines in a couple of Associated Press stories last week; one originated in the world of college theater; the other in the halls of Congress. While most actors and actresses have accepted the increasingly flagrant use of…

  • Alexis e-mails about children

    Recent e-mails from my son’s wife, Alexis just beg to be shared, so I am passing them along to my readers: Recently, the kids went to Chuck E. Cheese with their dad, Hex. He came home enlightened, “There are three types of parents at Chuck E. Cheese.” “What are they?” I asked. “The first is…

  • You are so old!

    My husband and I aren’t as old as the hills, but we may as well be when it comes to young children. Our ancient-ness began at such an early age. For my husband it began at less than 35 when the oldest child asked him, “Daddy, how long after that flood were you born?” “What…