I love the scary message from the State.
“In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)
My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.
The deacon is one who waits. He is never in charge. He is the servant of others–of God, of his bishops, of the congregation. He is a voice: it is his task to read the Lord’s Gospel, not his own….He is a servant: it is his task to wait at the Lord’s table….It is others…
I’m slowly getting everything unpacked at my new place and now as I pack a quick bag to take on a three-day retreat I’m coordinating up in Belton, I noticed something. I love that natural light can bathe me and my room in the morning. I hate that I had to wake up before that…
I’m in the middle of packing and moving to my new place and just finished packing away all of my books. Every year, I rediscover books that I completely forgot that I own. It has been really bad this year since most of my books were on shelves in the back of my closet. Next…
I’m heading out tomorrow night to The Woodlands to visit Vanessa for the weekend. Her mom, through a free ticket offer at her work, was able to get us tickets to see Hootie and the Blowfish on Friday. As Vanessa put it, “I think I remembered liking one of their songs in sixth grade.” I…
Do you have checking accounts over multiple banks? Do you hate having to write yourself a check and go to an ATM to deposit it? An easy way to transfer the money between banks without having to actually do any work is via PayPal. Without a fee, you can add funds to your account from…
In case anyone noticed and was concerned, my Internet-life was in a coma for about 13 hours today after a network failure at my server farm. My farm, rather the company whose farm hosts my site, suffered from a failed router/switch. After a battery of tests, changing configs and replacing equipment, everything appears to be…
