His BlackBerry buzzed on the nightstand as the sun was going down. He waited. Two vibrations and it was just an email that could wait until later to be answered. Any more and it would be the alarm, signaling time to get up. Buzzz… Buzzz… Buzzz. Shit.
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She wants you to wear traditional cotton pajamas…. mostly so she can steal the top.
When asked how to inherit eternal life Jesus turned the question back to the questioner. The man returned by quoting the Torah as any good Jew would have done. His paraphrase of the original has been repeated down through the ages for one simple reason. It captures the essence of what it means to know and follow God. When you strip away all of the debate and denominationalism in the public square today, when you stop arguing about whether Adam and Eve had navels, and whether Christ was an example for us to live by or a scapegoat for our sins these two commands remain. They are the simplest statement of what I’m supposed to do today… to do every day.
The pendulum of propriety has swung back and forth for centuries. The ancient Greeks had no concept of a separation between public and private life. In Jane Austen novels there are all manner of rules to follow before a man can be asked to dinner, much less find out something personal… like his middle name for instance. But society today has gone too far and the busy bodies of this world have no issue asking for your social security number and what the top 5 sites are in your web history. For all our sharing on Facebook, blogs, and Twitter there is still a very important line. We would do well to reestablish a certain reserve when it comes to the personal information of others.
The pull your hair around and make a mustache trick is one of the sexiest things known to mankind… and we have no idea why.
The first two weeks of January are defined by resolutions. You either have a few of them or you spend your time around the water cooler explaining how worthless and commercialized they’ve gotten. If you’re going to have to talk about them, you might as well do it correctly. I’ve come to the grand conclusion that the reason few of us ever complete our resolutions is because we’re doing it completely wrong.
A search for “New Year’s resolutions” on Google returns 24.5 million hits. Every blog I know of, regardless of …
