At a fancy restaurant on another recent trip, my bonus father, who doesn’t like mushrooms, asked for regular butter instead of the truffle-infused butter that was offered to us. The waiter actually responded to the request with, “This butter is really delicious.” Why would the waiter think his palate was the one that got to…
Author: caritagardiner
292. Why “Tell Me More about That”
I started thinking about the request, “Tell me more about that,” when I read one of Rebekah Jordan’s thoughtful newsletters on the topic. I recommend her weekly emails, which you can check out and/or subscribe to by clicking on the photo of her company’s website above. As you know (probably, since almost everyone who reads…
291. Why “At the Same Time”
Above is a photo I took of our mantle in Connecticut. You might think I took the photo in November, December, or January. I won’t tell you exactly when I snapped the picture, but it certainly wasn’t any of those holiday months. Yes, this year I’ve kept the stockings up much longer than I do…
290. Why Not “I Can’t Hear You”
My friend and former student (Hi, EB!) took the photo above last May, when I was giving a speech (because I won a really cool prize called the Lufkin Award) at the school where I teach. Fortunately, I had a lot of time to figure out what to say in my speech. My planning didn’t…
289. Why I Should Take Your Photo
My sister (Thanks, V!) took the photo above during spring break, when we were traveling together. (As an aside, I highly recommend Nashville as a great city for a family vacation. I can give reasons sometime to anyone who wants to hear my thoughts…or maybe I’ll write a Why Nashville post and force my opinions…
288. Why Use the Bathroom
I took the photo above in one of the public bathrooms in my school. I believe the Random Acts of Kindness Club wrote and posted this note and others that had lots of different messages and appeared in various places around campus. A fun project I approve of, but not the point of this post….
287. Why Consider the Percentage
[I tried to make the percent sign above look really spiffy, using an even larger, blurred, lavender shadow text, but after three tries of its not saving correctly, I gave up. If you know how to make such things happen, maybe you can give me a lesson sometime. Anyway, this paragraph has nothing to do…
286. Why a Book isn’t a Platform
In February, I got to attend the inaugural weekend of the Bread Loaf Winter Institute, a thought-provoking, enjoyable program I highly recommend. (If you want to check it out, click the photo above to learn more about the event and/or sign up for 2025’s iteration. Depending on how I’m feeling, maybe I’ll see you there.)…
285. Why I’m Not in My Basement
The above is a photo of me during my hockey season. Oh, don’t be silly. It’s a stock photo I found online of someone who spent a lot of time in a basement practicing to be able to shoot the puck like that. When this post goes live, I will be solidly in my off-season…
NetGalley Review of It’s All Relative
title: It’s All Relative author: Rachel Magee publisher: Thomas Nelson publication date: August 6, 2024 pages: 336 peppers: 1 (on this scale) warnings: none summary: Helena can’t stand the idea of going to her mother’s wedding to a great guy for two reasons. First, his family is annoyingly perfect. Second, she has a crush on Gage,…