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Want to know a secret? Jane isn’t my real name. It’s a nickname that was born at a junior high summer camp. A television commercial back in the early 90s showed a Listerine bottle swinging itself along through the jungle from vine to vine with the hook from the mid-80s Tarzan Boy song echoing in the background. Read more
I’m having a morning if you know what I mean — the kind where I dragged my weary (and, if I’m honest, entirely disinterested) spirit to the presence of God because I’ve learned that these are exactly the kind of days that I need to the most.
I opened my Passion Translation Bible that I like to have on hand for mornings like these when my brain is on strike, and I breathe deep when I notice the title for the first time of the Psalm that I was searching for. Read more
Tonight’s dinner plan? The steak we bought from the local butcher. In my hunting for the perfect recipe, I came upon a tip: the secret isn’t in the best, most expensive cut of organic beef. No, the trick to succulent meat on a budget is tenderizing. It turns even the toughest cuts into prime selections and always results in flavorful, juicy, melt-in-your-mouth beef. Read more
If you don’t know Milli Vanilli, let me take a moment to introduce you to one of the music industry’s biggest hoaxes ever. They came in hot with their 1988 debut hit that lived on the Billboard Hot 100 list for 26 weeks straight. The plot twist? The lead “singers” were secretly professional dancers who never actually sang a single note of their hit song. Read more
Years ago, Taylor Swift released a song that entered my ears at first listen and didn’t leave for at least two months. I hear that’s what people in the music industry call an earworm.
In it, Swift repeats the same line 38 times in the song’s four-minute length. Read more
