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My prediction:
Steelers: 24
Cardinals: 17
I would actually be happy either way. Last year, I was pulling hard for Eli over the Spygate team that will remain nameless. This year, I’m just looking forward to a good game.
Filed under: recommendations
I like getting people’s recommendations. They make me stretch myself and connect me with experiences I would otherwise not have. Here are a few things I find myself recommending often:
Read: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read in a long time)
Listen: “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” (on NPR- you can get it for free on the internet)
Eat: Liberte yogurt (who would guess that Canadians would get Greek-style yogurt so perfect?)
Wear: Lacoste polos. I’ve never been preppy enough to purchase one of these croc-emblazoned shirts for myself, but one of my sisters bought me one for Christmas, and the quality and feel are luscious.
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A few years ago, #3 and I started playing Roadkill Blackjack on our road trips. So far, our record is only 87 miles to find 21 pieces (none of which did we kill, for the record).
Today, I devised a new form of driving entertainment. To play, all you need is a slow-moving freeway, a driving rain, and cars with alumni license plate frames. It all started when I noticed that one of the many cars on the freeway without its lights on in the pouring rain had a Stanford alum plate frame. How could someone graduate from Stanford and be so ignorant about traffic laws and common sense? So I started tracking whose alumni had their lights on and whose were clueless.
Today’s winners include Pitt and U. Mass, and losers were Stanford and USC.
“It means she gets things for us when we should get them for ourselves. And things we don’t usually get to do, we can, because she talks Mom and Dad into letting us.”
Like what?
“Like watching cartoons almost all day long!”
My experience with grandparents wasn’t much different.
From a young one:
“When I grow up, I want to be an airplane food giver.”
She would make a great flight attendant, although her tendency to call things what they are might get her in trouble. “Would you like some high-fructose corn syrup, caramel color, preservatives and carbonated water?”
My younger class is figuring out how extended family works. Today, one little one was describing to me her paternal grandparents:
“And Papa is their little children.”
Another was talking about her cousins:
“And I’m cousins back.”
Which made me wonder: how odd would it be if cousin-hood was not reciprocal?
“And my car’s middle name is Hello Kitty!”
“Really? Cool!”
A few minutes after I announced to the class that A. was going to be absent today, due to illness, I heard one of my students sigh:
It’s sad that A. isn’t going to be here. He has lots of fabulous ideas. I like him.
I didn’t know whether to smile for the sweetness of the sentiment, or sigh for her sorrow.
#6, at family devotions:
“Do you have to pray for the sun to rise? Then why do you pray for me to be good?”
Filed under: Christianity
A young man in England, born to wealth and status, was planning to go into business. In one day, his family lost their fortune, which freed him to pursue another profession- the church. Ultimately, his ministry strengthened hundreds of souls whom he pastored and thousands more whom reached and still reaches through the written word.
If you’ve ever benefitted from J. C. Ryle, you have economic disaster to thank. If you haven’t benefitted from him yet, please go find something he wrote and read it. His family’s loss can be your gain.
