February 17, 2009

Girls

Steve said I could come post on here. First I had to know what "here" was, so I read just about all the posts and found alot of good stuff. Alot of guys are alot further on this "dad" thing than I am and it's good to hear some similar frustrations and guidance for the road ahead. But I found something lacking...

They're all stories about little boys. I don't have any of those. Just a little girl. I'm looking forward to having boys to do things like hide game pieces in underwear. But I'm not there yet. And the things that run through my mind about my child are sometimes very different than the thoughts I've read here. See, I think Luke's little love note is cute and all. But if it was aimed at my daughter (Ryann), I have to pursue the "clean the shotgun" angle. Or the "how many different ways can I teach her to kill boys" angle. I can't help it. It just happens.

Anyways, I've already written a big post about my daughter in my other place for writing (note: I hate the word blog. Or at least saying that I have one). So I'm just going to link to it. Keep posting. I enjoy reading your stories. Here's mine.

February 10, 2009

Young Love

The following is a poem Luke wrote for a young lady named Ella in his class:

Ella,
You are light as a flower
You are beautiful as a diamond
You love Luke,
I love you

February 7, 2009

Culture

LUKE: "Bob Ross is the bestest painter ever."

February 4, 2009

Barbarians or Wimps

There's a great article, Wimps and Barbarians: the Sons of Murphy Brown I came upon today in prep for next week's sermon. I found it google-searching Lewis' "men without chests" comment. It's worth a look.

Josh Schatzle

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1192/article_detail.asp