I forget sometimes that I don’t have a monopoly on being socially clueless. Saying the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. For months I have been tagging along with a Sunday school at a Baptist church. I don’t really know why. That is, I know several reasons why, but none of them alone and even all of them Read More

I have gotten terribly stalled on learning chords. I am just starting to get to the point where I can make a passable attempt at switching from G to D7 (my first two chords). This hurdle has been terrible for my enthusiasm and I have found lots of reasons not to practice over the last few months. To combat this Read More

“You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting,” Daniel informed Belshazzar. The significance of this depends on who was doing the weighing. I have felt myself considered short in many different ways, but only once do I remember feeling I had been found fundamentally lacking righteousness. I will use that word, anyway; theologians might tell me there is Read More

I got a bill and I thought to pay it like a good boy. I went to write a check but there were no checks in the checkbook. I went to get a new checkbook but the box was empty. I knew I had been running low but I thought I had at least one checkbook left! I go through Read More