MadMania

Faith, Books, and Stuff

Author: madman

Hideously modest

A friend of mine wears very conservative, one-piece swimsuits. She had left her swimsuit and shorts over at a friend’s house, but she didn’t remember where she left them. The friend didn’t know whose they were, so she threw them away. A couple weeks later she emailed my friend the bad news, having recently realized […]

Music and Memory

Every time I hear Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You it makes me think of Kaleb’s wife. Hold on–I know I have some ‘splainin’ to do–just give me a second. Music has a way of embedding memories. Trisha Yearwood and Clint Black, appropriately, used music to point this out, in The Song […]

Starter

I hate working on cars. I really freaking hate it. There are many good reasons to work on a car: you are a mechanic, you are Tony Stark, or you are clinically depressed but don’t quite feel like dying. There are abundantly more bad reasons: you have to get to work, you are on vacation, […]