Family Man Librarian

One of the movies we watched over the holiday weekend — on Thanksgiving Day, actually — was The Incredibles.  We’ve seen this movie many times but I still enjoy it.  One of my favorite quotes from the movie is when Helen Parr is driving her son, Dash, home from school after he got in trouble [...]

I’ve never participated in a meme before, but I kinda like the one I just found in a very serendipitous way on a blog named Bella Dia.  (This is a blog I have to tell Michele about, if she doesn’t know about it already.  Michele is a blog-reading fiend when it comes to blogs like [...]

Giving thanks is something I need to do on a regular basis, not just around the Thanksgiving holiday. Let me start, then, with the following list. I am thankful for:

My family, especially my wife and my children
The knowledge that God loves me in spite of myself
A comfortable house to live in
A good job
Many [...]

I hate this time of year.
That may sound harsh, but it’s true. And the more “jolly holly Christmas-y” everyone around me gets, the more I hate it. I don’t like the way that people spend so much money (more than they can afford). I don’t like the extreme commercialism or consumerism that [...]