ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected

Speaking of high verbal quotients, as of this post, the general stats in my sidebar says that I have
1,346 Posts
5,833 Comments
535,835 Words in Posts
370,046 Words in comments
Now I know that I have a high verbal quotient for a man. I am cool with it but… come on … I got y’all beat by almost 166,000 [...]

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***UPDATE: At the end of the post, after the jump***
I first wrote about Augusten Burroughs‘ not long ago. I was impressed with his writing ability and honesty.
I mentioned that I wasn’t really ready to read his book A Wolf At The Table because it sounded traumatizing. I knew it would trigger some of my own [...]

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…Because we were you know.  I visited his website last night and found out he has a book due out next week named Snuff.
It’s fiction about some lady who stars in a porno with 600 other men.
I don’t need a telegram from the Angel Gabriel to figure out that there is absolutely zero reason to [...]

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I was in DC last week for a Pastor’s conference. It ended Friday around 2pm and our next meeting was really a birthday party at 6pm. In between I took a nap and then went to Barnes & Noble. While there I saw a book by Augusten Burroughs called A Wolf At [...]

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Today, I thought I was going over to Alan & Leslies for a birthday lunch with them and the kiddos.  Well, it was them and a bunch of our friends :).  Very nice surprise.
AND … Leslie cooked Mexican food and it was wooonnndddeeerrrrfffffuuuulllll.
so good.
My birthday was two days ago but it was brand new all [...]

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I figured out that I loved writing in the 4th grade. I wrote a story about a painting, and the teacher liked it so much she read it to all of her classes. That’s when I caught the bug. Every day, at the start of class, everyone had to read for 20 [...]

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Julie Fidler is our newest Guest Blogger here at ETC!  woowhoot!
She is funny, smart and always honest.   Enjoy!

Julie is the author of “Adventures In Holy Matrimony: For Better or the Absolute Worst” (Relevant Books). She is currently co-authoring two new books, one on marriage, one on mental illness and the Church. She is also [...]

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I submitted some writing samples to a guy who knows his stuff about that kind of stuff. We both thought it would be good to read authors that I tend to write like. Not to copy them but to learn from them.
Enter David Sedaris’ books. I have read two of his other [...]

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 I am quoted in CitizenLink
CitizenLink: Washington, D.C., Schools Consider Pro-Gay Sex Education
… Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International, agrees.
“Parents need to be aware of the fact that in many school districts across the nation, the promotion of homosexuality is coming in stealthily under titles like ‘health learning standards’ or ‘family life education,’” Thomas [...]

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Proverbs 18:20-21 (NKJ)
20 From the fruit of his mouth a man’s stomach is filled;
with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.
21 The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Last night, after the concert, I went blog surfing and found three articles that stood out to [...]

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