Bonus Points

For the first person to identify the Meryl Streep movie quote in a recent post--movie *and* context. Anyone?

Contemplation

A couple of months ago, I looked at my desk and saw a portrait of my life. Two items: a bottle of Zoloft and a coupon to get butter for just $1.49/pound. Later I thought, It's not a portrait, it's a question: Do I still have a soul?

Then I was listening to the radio the other day and Garrison Keillor had some great music playing, and I almost started crying, and I realized that the answer is, Yes, I have a soul. It's just a little hungry.

So, what do you listen to to feed a hungry soul? The Primary Children's Songbook is great, but it's just not cutting it any longer.

Insomnia

Last night I had an odd dream and woke up determined to share with you an old, not very interesting secret. I was about to pick up my notebook and pen and craft the telling, but I picked up my pillow instead and went to the other room to listen to the BBC.

And I was lying there and I heard one British man said to another British man, So how did you come up with the idea for Colin the Zombie?

And I thought, Yes, I see. This is the way it was intended.

My neck is sore

Teenage boys in a car on a dark and stormy night. Bad combination.

The Costco Way

Me: So, the order I placed is going to take fifteen business days to ship, not seven?

Customer "Service": That's right. That's the Costco way.

Fantastic.

Mommy math

Going To the Doctor by Fred Rogers

+

One plastic doctor kit from 1985

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One receptive child

=

Two shots, no crying. Not even a flinch.