I just failed a screening interview. It wasn’t even a phone screening. It was an online survey and I was unwilling to lie enough to pass through the filter. On my resume I just avoided the awkward bits where I didn’t quite meet the requirements, but then to submit it I had to check boxes and enter numbers–cold, hard numbers–which Read More

Today I read this disturbing call to marriage (Hat Tip Hip And Thigh). Elysse Barrett writes from and to my “Christian, conservative, homeschooling” circle and, in my judgment, accurately represents our subculture’s gestalt–both its behavior and its self-criticism. The priority behind this essay, and much of the talk in my crowd, is the (re)establishment and preservation of culture, worked out Read More

It is strange to me that my thoughts can fly like leaves before a storm, rushing and tumbling in the terror and despair of the calamity that drives them on. Each leaf itself is an inconsequential tatter, but they flee like an army in route, and it is hard not to run with them. Yet I have no idea what Read More

Used to be, on lunch breaks, I would take a walk. I get an hour lunch and I could get pretty far. In twenty minutes I can get to the deli, so I can actually get a slice of pizza or something quick and make it back within my hour. It’s not all that far but it’s a lot farther Read More