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...

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Diarrhea 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...

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Posting

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...

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Famous (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...

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Viva 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...

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Back + 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...

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I'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...

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Haunting

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...

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