1. Bathrooms with no coat hook.
2. Double doors where one of them is always locked.
3. Grown men that complain like little girls.
4. Closed kitchens.
5. Married women that don’t wear a ring.

I was young and naive, and the city was the opposite. I looked into her old weathered face and saw a woman, some how a sly old grandmother who was ready to teach and a young flirtatious girl at the same time.

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.

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.