Rerun: God and Darwin and Me on One Knee
Posted by dewde in Marriage on 17. Jun, 2009 | 9 Comments
I reach up and write with large, friendly letters the words “Stupid American” into the fog, followed by an arrow that points down and ends where my face begins. The words are written backwards inside the bus so that spectators outside the bus can read them in the right direction.
Extreme Parenting: Vandalism Edition
Posted by dewde in Parenting on 13. Jun, 2009 | 16 Comments
Sometimes advice stands on its own. You read it. You poke it. You lift its flaps and test its zippers. You give it an apprehensive sniff. You compare it to your experiences, and then move on. Maybe you add it to your mental bag of tricks, maybe you don’t.
Other times, you hear advice and your [...]
Look Ma, I'm Fame-ish!
Posted by dewde in General on 12. Jun, 2009 | 4 Comments
Exactly how messed up do you have to be to allow me to guest-post on your blog? As messed up as the kids over at ChurchCrunch, apparently. I was accepted into a group blogging project. The idea is that 16 different people read the same book and report on one chapter each.
My guess is that [...]
My Arrest Was The Best Thing That Could Have Happened
Posted by dewde in General on 07. Jun, 2009 | 6 Comments
I’ve shared with you that my arrest was the best thing that could have happened. I don’t change that belief. I ask that you judge me as a man, not as a sex offender. That doesn’t define me. It’s something I did. And believe me, I am not trying to minimize that. It’s horrible and something I can’t imagine doing again.
A Question Twice The Size Of My Large Intestine
Posted by dewde in Parenting on 03. Jun, 2009 | 26 Comments
And there it was. The moment. The kind of moment that, as a parent, you both long for and fear at the same time. But as an Uncle, you get utterly blindsided by its very existence. One second I’m sucking down a hot dog twice as long as my large intestine, the next I’m staring down a once in a lifetime opportunity to validate this boy’s very existence.
The Atheists Have It Right
Posted by dewde in Christianity on 31. May, 2009 | 34 Comments
Here is a thing that always bugged me as an Atheist and hasn’t changed since I crossed over to the La La Land of Christian Lemmingism. I seem to remember getting a lot of crap over the notion that, as an Atheist, I believed this one life was all I had.
“Isn’t it sad or depressing [...]
An Unconscionable Addiction – Part 4
Posted by dewde in Christianity on 21. May, 2009 | 16 Comments
The kind of compassion I’m talking about does not tug at your heart and captivate your attention. It is not the soft compassion reserved for poverty stricken orphans or leukemia patients or quadriplegics. This compassion smells like beer and hasn’t shaved in weeks. It is hard and calloused and abrasive to your sensibilities. If you don’t look for it, you will not find it.
An Unconscionable Addiction – Part 3
Posted by dewde in Christianity on 19. May, 2009 | 2 Comments
So I prayed. I prayed leading up to your sentencing. I did my best to show you grace on the site. I asked God to give you justice and mercy, and I specifically remember praying that God would ignore any notions I had about how much justice and how much mercy because I was a stupid, broken man with very little qualification to make such a decision.
An Unconscionable Addiction – Part 2
Posted by dewde in Christianity on 18. May, 2009 | 2 Comments
Immediately after I dropped Part 1, I realized that I had screwed up. The things I shared, while true, were directed at another person and I had never given that person the common courtesy of telling him those things directly. So I wrote him a letter. Then I sat on it for 2 weeks. I re-read it saturday with fresh eyes and I made some corrections and put it in an envelope. By “corrections” I mean I removed a butt load of fluff, sugar-coating, and word-smithing that were an attempt to make myself sound less like a tool and more like a wise, concerned friend.
Stupid People, Bodily Harm, Fun For Whole Family
Posted by dewde in General on 17. May, 2009 | 7 Comments
The past few Saturdays we’ve watched this show on ABC called Wipeout. It’s sort of an Americanized, spay/neutered version of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. As such, it is more family friendly. The first time our little one Savannah saw someone fall off the new Nards of Doom (a.k.a The Big Balls) she actually started crying. [...]
