To be fair, many Christians believe that the coming of Christ basically threw out all of the harsh rules and laws of the Old Testament and that the new law basically is: " Love God.Love your neighbor. Full stop, but if you need some details, here are a few parables and the Beatitudes." So considering all of the other…

I just wanted to chime in and say that Dads who pull their own weight are out there. I'm currently at home with my 6-month old daughters. So far this morning we've played, had naps, and baths. Kitchen is cleaned up, working on ideas for dinner and my 4th load of laundry. I've answering work e-mails, and tonite I 'll…

or when you never got caught all the previous times.

Have to weigh in here:

I think both foods have an estrogen-like compound or precursor, but don't quote me on it. As for the avocados, while my wife and I would like to blame the guacamole at our favorite Mexican restaurant, I think the margaritas may have had something to do with it too.

Fraternal twins are/can be hereditary, but true identical (monozygotic) twins are still officially considered "cause unknown" . There are a few studies just coming out that seem to indicate that some me. May carry a certain enzyme in their sperm that can cause the egg to split under certain circumstances, in which…

to see this in real life, you have to go to the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio sometime.It's amazing to see all the twins, both young and old and the higher order multiples. We went once or twice with my younger sisters, who are identical twins, and will likely go this summer or next with my two new…

Good luck. We tried everywhere to avoid the van. And with the twins in rear facing mode my 6 year old son still has to crawl on his hands and knees to get under the 2nd row car seat to get back to the third row. Luckily once there he can buckle himself in because there is no way and adult could do it without removing…

we're with you on the forced mini-van upgrade due to twins thing too! And holy crap, a fully loaded Honda Odysseus was Fifty Grand. Fifty Grand....are you kidding my. Kia it is. Girls will be 5 months here in a few days.

Ah yes, just like at the Last Supper when Jesus gathered his apostles around him and said "This is my Body, I give it up for you , well, that is you unless you were baptized something other than Catholic, don't attend church every week, skipped your last confession, don't have a 100% spot free conscience, or you…

Another parent of young twins here. My girls are four months old. Thankfully, my wife and I have flexible enough work schedules that we each get to be a stay at home parent a few days a week. The dilemma comes around 3pm. Our son is 6 and it required that parents show I'D to get their kindergarteners off the school…

Actually, at least in Kentucky (not exactly a progressive state, mind you) Boy Scout leaders and Sunday School teachers (episcopal, anyway) do undergo background checks and a pretty intense training before they can work with minors. Heck, as a 15-year old Boy Scout summer camp counsellor, despite being a minor myself…

It's still tradition in my wife's family that they bury their own. Of course, this is at a family burial ground out on the eastern slope of a mountain, not your local cemetary. If winter they build a charcoal fire to thaw the ground and will dig the whole the day before. As an in-law I'm not exactly invited, but…

Oh I wish that I could be, oh I wish that I could be Richard Cory.

the plastic wrap is more than just a draft stopper (and to be honest, if you have a draft rope caulk will do more than the plastic). Think of it as the poor person's dual-panes windows. The plastic helps reduce radiant heat loss through the glass. No more cold feeling when you walk by the window.

My brine recipe:

I'm beginning more and more to wonder whether the type of person who would just overlook this sort of thing, much less actively cover it up is somehow naturally attracted to or successful in positions of power and influence, or if it is the power and influence that itself somehow corrupts perfectly normal people…

Newborn twins, not on any semblance of a schedule yet, so all we really got was an hour of prolonged half-sleep. Of course they were down for the count pretty solidly by 5am, unfortunate since my 6 year old has to be up by 6am to get ready for school. I did appreciate the extra light at the bus stop, however. At…

I'm as annoyed by evangelical atheists as I am by evangelical Christians (or really extremists of any group or ideology). Both groups are extremely close-minded in their beliefs and seem to adopt the same tactics of mocking, harassing or shunning those they disagree with. Lately however I've been particularly…

Hmm, I have lived in (or very near) four of these places. I think that means i get yo yell "Bingo" now, right? (Oh, and that would be Corbin, Prestonsburg, Rome and Ripley).