Posts from September 2019

The Gospel According to Rambo

Rambo is my wife’s favorite movie franchise. And so when we found out that we were free one night because her mom came in to babysit, we settled into our movie theater seats and watched the fifth and last installment of the Rambo series, Rambo V: Last Blood. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the movie took about as…

The Good Dentist

I have to go to the dentist. Well, I don’t “have to” but I should. And I finally made an appointment. Insurance checks out. All of that. And I’m going to be vulnerable with you all and tell you, it’s been a while. Like, a long while. I have visions of being yelled at by…

What a Cross is for

Just the other day, my wife, Liz, made a cross-like structure out of some robot-shaped building blocks while playing with my girls. Tempest, my two-year old theologian, responded to Liz’s cross with these words: “You made a cross, Momma! Good job! Now somebody can die.” Liz posted a picture of the cross and Tempest’s words…

You can’t handle the Count

Hearts, hands with thumbs up, stars…it’s a “magically delicious” mix of dopamine inducing social media “Lucky Charms“. However, we’re finding that all of those arbitrary likes and loves and follows that we get on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc are maybe about as good for us as Lucky Charms cereal are for diabetics.…