Tag: Christianity
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It’s Too Soon!
I was running errands with my daughter, and four-year-old Nolan was tagging along. Not by desire, but by necessity. In one store, there was a plethora of Halloween costumes and decorations, situated next to early Christmas knick-knacks. It was quite surreal; it has still been in the 90s here, and hurricane season is now in…
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He Fights Back
They believe him to be a teenager; he’s not quite heavy enough to force the trap. He is, however, clever enough to get the food that’s inside it. He’s a rat. A teenage rat. Slinky (my name for him) can scrunch his rather large body into such a compact size that he can worm his…
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Didn’t Expect To See That
It was “Drive Your Tractor To Church Day” up in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. We’ve never experienced that in Florida. Here in Orlando, I don’t see that many tractors, period. My son and his family own a winery in the south-central part of the state, where they and those owning much larger farms require tractors to handle…
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It’s A Kid Thing
The prevailing experience for children turning a year of age is to give them a cake to do with as they please. A smash cake. The thought is that a child at this age hasn’t ingested a lot of sugar up to this point, so it’s a reward of sorts to let them eat cake.…
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A Spoonful Of Sugar
I don’t understand the excitement over Ring Pops. Granted, they’re sugary, easy to carry, ring-around-a-finger kind of candy. And for those who love lollipops, they’re a fine alternative. I’ve always seen them as a means to migrate stickiness from the mouth to the fingers to the clothes. I never liked lollipops. Kids, however, love them.…
Tip of My Iceberg 