On Thursdays I throw-back to a post from the archives. This is from April, 2010. Mark and I had some friends over this evening.  This is something we haven't done in a long time.  We've had people over, but usually it involves other friends with kids, so there is a lot of chaos as we yell over the noise of the kids, and try to remember where the conversation left off before one of us was interrupted by rescuing a child off the side of the trampoline, or cutting someone's chicken, or . . .

  This post was sponsored by Blue Apron. Over the past four months, we’ve lived in a midst of a home renovation that involved not having a kitchen sink. Or counters. As a result, we ate a lot of take-out and fast food. To say that we’ve developed some unhealthy habits would be an understatement. Our sink was installed a couple weeks ago, but we haven’t quite yet righted the ship in terms of getting back into the practice of cooking at home. The kids went back to school last week, . . .

Bernie Sanders, a candidate for the 2016 presidential election, did something bold this week. He accepted Liberty University’s invitation to come speak at their school. As a Jewish democratic socialist, he seems an unlikely person to accept an invitation to speak at one of the bastions of conservative evangelicalism (the school was founded by Jerry Fallwell), and in fact was the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever accept the invite. In his speech, he appealed to Christian values: . . .

On Thursdays I post from the archives. This is from July 2008. (And I did eventually paint the piano yellow. You can see it here.) I've been wanting to get a piano for our house for almost a year now.  We previously had a baby grand but it took up too much space, so we sold it and then my plan was to replace it with an upright.  But Craig's List . . . it's just so much work with the calling and the appointment-making.  Finally, this week I found a piano at a local thrift . . .