Archive for December, 2008

Obama and the Pastor (no, not that one)

So, I was just reading this article on AOL:
[headline] Obama’s Pick for Invocation Under Fire[first graph] In a move that’s infuriated some rights activists and other supporters, President-elect Barack Obama has chosen an evangelical minister opposed to same-sex marriage to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
Has it really come to this? Already? “Activists” are up [...]

Old and Young.

This evening, I sat at the kitchen table with my youngest son, who is 22 months old. Also at the table was one of his Grandmas–my dad’s wife Becky–and her own mother, Granny, who is living with some stage of demensia, possibly Alzheimers disease. Three of the four of us were coloring with crayons.
I watched [...]