Resurrection
All right, I've decided that it's official: I'm taking Friday's off, and instead I'll just be doing FFAQ polls. Who wants to write a post on a Friday night anyway? (This is why you're not seeing my response until now. Sorry to freak people out. My sister just wrote me...
read morePoll for tomorrow’s Friday’s Frequently Asked Question (FFAQ) post. Also, pictures from my hike this morning. UPDATE: Poll closes at 8:00pm PST
Well, the hike was a success, and I didn't even defecate everywhere, which is always a plus when you're climbing to the top of a mountain. Here are some pictures: This is me on top of a mountain. Because I climb mountains. It's just something I do. Click "Read...
read moreDiarrhea Juice + discussion of commenting UPDATED
Because yesterday's post was pretty heavy and has elicited some intense discussion (read: people flaming each other needlessly) I thought I'd keep it light today. But I do want to talk about comments which I'll do at the end. So, this house has become bedlam. The last...
read moreNot talking about hard things: the real danger to the youth of the church
Since I'm going to be posting daily, I was wondering what to do for today's post, and how I can set up some regular features so that I know what to post on specific days. A couple people reminded me that I've promised in the past to answer questions about Club Unicorn...
read morePosting
Does this ever happen to you? You get into this bind with blogging where you don't post, then you start to think that you can never post again until you've come up with something truly brilliant to make up for the fact that you haven't posted enough lately. Except...
read moreFamous (like Confucius, of course)
Today I was filling out Anna's "back to school" sheet. Of course this was happening five minutes before she needed to walk out the door for the bus, so everyone was in a panic. But I stole away from the chaos for a moment or two to fill it out. It asked all the...
read moreViva Fashionista
For a gay man, I'm surprisingly horrible at fashion. I stole this picture from a post I wrote two years ago. So sue me. This is a picture of me in high school. I weighed about 40 lbs. more than I do now, and I literally wore plaid shirts like this, tucked in, every...
read moreBack + Good News
I've returned from the camping trip to some very, very good news. Our friend from the other day has been located and is safe. He is alive. I don't know many details other than that he wishes to remain anonymous, and that he is being taken care of by some close family...
read moreI'm going camping
I'm going camping, so I won't be around for a few days. In honor of my camping trip, I'm posting my camping tutorial from last year. I hope it gives you hope and direction from your own camping endeavors. I'll be back with something real on Saturday. I have high hopes...
read moreHaunting
So, yesterday I received a tip from a really great guy that there was a blog post written by a highly suicidal young man. The guy who tipped me off said that he himself has commented on my blog before, and that he often disagrees with me, but that he prayed about how...
read moreAnd then Jenny Lawson and I pretended to be angry pandas together…
Subtitle: Sometimes it pays to have ADD. So, yesterday was a big day for me. I went to a book signing to meet one of my idols, Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess (<---click that link if you want to read one of the funniest blogs you'll ever read, but with this caveat:...
read moreA long day is speaking at a symposium and then going straight into being filmed for a documentary until 2:00am.
So, Saturday was an incredibly long day. First, we went to the Compassionate Cause symposium where I was on a panel because I am an expert where when we say "expert" we mean someone who has had their own therapy practice for one entire year. Actually, being on the...
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