I love Christmas. Some things I don’t enjoy about holidays are…. Actually I have to reframe things I don’t like into things I “GET TO DO” because once I make up my mind I don’t like something that’s the end of that. The hatred of mushrooms, olives, and sweet potatoes were decisions I made when I was small that only took about two decades to … Continue reading Christmas Eve
Now you might be a man who’s on the ball and thoughtful and doesn’t mess up Christmas present buying like the rest of us. Firstly we’re proud of you. Secondly we hate you a little for making the rest of us look bad. I normally start thinking about buying Christmas presents about a week out. I have no idea why. Every year I watch my … Continue reading How Men Shop at Christmas
Remember the ShamWow guy on TV? Our family does. Erin and I were laughing this morning about some of the funny things our girls have asked for at Christmas, and ShamWow is right up there with them. Back in the day before DVR we were only faced with a couple of terrible options when commercials came on: Continue watching them. Engage in meaningful conversation with … Continue reading A ShamWow Christmas
If humility is the opposite of pride, what is the opposite of anger? This Christmas season we could stretch the conversation to “peace on earth” or “acceptance” or other mild words, but I’m not a mild person and needed to define it in a way I could actually apply it. “Acceptance” to me sounds like “victim” and I hate thinking of myself that way so … Continue reading The Opposite of Anger
Every year my mom would trot out the ghetto blaster (interesting name), take the Boney M Christmas album cassette out (look up what cassette means) and play the world’s most painful music while I descended into madness. My childhood memories aren’t many, one tends to selectively block out the stupid things one attempted lest one get caught, but I remember things like Boney M Christmas. … Continue reading Boney M Christmas
Sadly I’m fairly terrible at decorating for the holidays. I like the holidays and like the decorations, I just don’t like doing it. My last daughter is extremely competitive and was driving through the city saying “Good house! Bad house! Best house!” by way of rating the outside Christmas lights. She narrows her eyes as we approach our house which has been decorated as simply … Continue reading Deck the Halls
Can anything take sin away? You and I know that sin piles up. There’s something about it that fills up our lives and eventually drowns us. In any relationship you probably suspect that sin and wrong adds to previous sin and wrong don’t you? I know people who are very good at ignoring the build-up but you can only ignore them for so long before … Continue reading RED
