Like literally take time off work and go somewhere. Get my hair cut more than once this year. Eat vegetables more than once a week. Use my DSLR more often. Buy less toys for Amelia. Buy more things for myself.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I can almost taste the freedom. I wish I could take a picture of Jamie going through a lie detector test. to be a SUBMARINER! I need to clean. THE domestic goddess, Quinn.

Thoughts on religion, spirituality, world events, other blogs, and just about anything else I can come up with, all from the perspective of The Married Monk. Saturday, June 20, 2015. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Is not Christ the Shep.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011. I actually forgot to do my rec for last week. A Love Story For the Ages by missrebecca. A Love Story For the Ages is sweet but heartbreaking and is a quick read. Sexy Silk has Slugger and Tulip. Wednesday, April 13, 2011.

I wrote a speech to share at her funeral of what a great woman she was and I am sharing it here today. Her passing last month left the world a little less colorful and a lot less interesting. But even in our grief, we know we were so lucky to have had this lovi.