Family Posts
Tuesday May 20, 2008
Update on Lindsay Johnson
Many of you have written to ask if a fund has been set up for the children of Jessica Johnson, whose daughter Lindsay witnessed her mom's murder, and survived her own attempted murder, caring for her baby sister through the...Filed Under: Jessica Johnson Palmer, Jr., Juan Palmer, Lindsay Paige Johnson
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Sunday May 18, 2008
The joy of mudpuddles
Sunday afternoon in our backyard. Oh yeah, summer's comin'......posted by Rod Dreher @ 9:37pm Permalink Email This
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Sunday May 18, 2008
Lindsay's gift
My Sunday Dallas Morning News column on Lindsay Paige Johnson, the four-year-old girl who saw her mother and brother murdered, and who had her throat cut -- but survived, and walked out of the forest carrying her baby sister to...Filed Under: Lindsay Paige Johnson, love, murder, Robbyn
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Monday May 12, 2008
What would George Bailey do?
In the new TAC, Allan Carlson ponders what George Bailey of "It's A Wonderful Life" would do to resolve the home mortgage crisis. Excerpt: First of all, I think he would want to examine the sociology of the crisis. How...Filed Under: Allan Carlson, George Bailey, home mortgage, mortgage crisis
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Sunday May 11, 2008
She's not heavy, she's my sister
I spoke with my sister this evening. She was pretty down. A young woman she had taught in sixth grade was murdered the other day. The woman's estranged boyfriend (she was separated from her husband) and a female relative of...Filed Under: Jessica Johnson Palmer, murder
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Sunday May 11, 2008
Bear Bryant says, "Call your mama."
So does Thomas Friedman, who lost his mother this past year, and who ends his Mother's Day column like this: Whenever I’ve had the honor of giving a college graduation speech, I always try to end it with this story...Filed Under: Bear Bryant, Mama, Mother's Day, Thomas Friedman
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Friday May 2, 2008
The big black thing
Got the news this morning that the stepfather of a dear friend died in the night. Our friend and her husband are worried about how to tell their small boys that their grandfather is dead. This breaks my heart. When...posted by Rod Dreher @ 9:47am Permalink Email This
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Tuesday April 15, 2008
Pawpaw and Louisiana
I talked today with a friend who's a University of Dallas grad about my piece coming out in Sunday's paper, about the school. My friend is living and working in south Louisiana, though he's not a native. I asked him...Filed Under: Jindal, Louisiana
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Friday April 11, 2008
Hitting the wall
I was talking to my dad the other night, telling him about the various travails we're going through in my house, and how we all seem to be hitting a pretty hard wall, pretty hard. He said, with obvious frustration,...Filed Under: modern life, shingles, stress
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Wednesday March 26, 2008
Girls
I'm sorry, but you will never, ever convince me that femininity is socially constructed. Not after the 20 minutes I spent earlier this evening. I was sitting at the table talking to Julie when Nora, who is 17 months old,...Filed Under: girls
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Older Family Posts
Thursday March 13, 2008
The Silda saga, cont'd
Wednesday March 12, 2008
It's a Bratz country
Should Silda stay or should she go?
Thursday February 28, 2008
Moms who build cathedrals
Friday February 22, 2008
Other people's problems
Lesson learned
Thursday February 21, 2008
Pinewood Derby postgame
Filed Under: Pinewood Derby
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Comics and cultivating nerd children
Poster family for Anti-Natalism
Sunday February 17, 2008
The pinewood miracle
Filed Under: miracle, Pinewood derby
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Bad Dad and the Pinewood Derby
Friday February 8, 2008
Should you settle?
Wednesday February 6, 2008
"I want my child to be a celebrity."
Saturday February 2, 2008
Happy happy joy joy
Filed Under: Babies
Wednesday January 30, 2008
The child-man
Thursday January 24, 2008
Kids these days
Filed Under: conservatism, Kids
Monday January 14, 2008
The agony of childlessness
Filed Under: Baby Boomers, childless
Sunday December 30, 2007
A decade with Julie
Saturday December 22, 2007
Ecce geek
Filed Under: Apple, Steve Jobs
Friday December 14, 2007
Christmastime is here
Wednesday November 28, 2007
Family-friendly cities succeed
Thursday November 22, 2007
[Erin] Over the river and through the woods
Wednesday November 21, 2007
[Erin] Marriage in the modern world
Filed Under: gay marriage
Tuesday November 20, 2007
[Rod] Vacationing with children: A supposedly good idea I'll never try again
[Erin] The fellowship of men
Sunday November 18, 2007
[Erin] Toys, remembered
Filed Under: Christmas, Ten worst toy list
Saturday November 17, 2007
[Erin] Preconceived notions of child abuse
Filed Under: child abuse, Scandal
Monday November 5, 2007
Honor thy father and mother ... always?
Saturday October 13, 2007
Real-life Dreher fambly dialogue
Filed Under: Diana Krall, unsympathetic wives
Thursday October 11, 2007
Saving the family farm
Filed Under: family farms
Monday October 8, 2007
Justice Thomas and fatherhood
Filed Under: Clarence Thomas, fatherhood
Thursday October 4, 2007
Maman of the Year
Wednesday October 3, 2007
Two tents
Filed Under: Jenna Bush
Friday September 28, 2007
Lucas update
Thursday September 27, 2007
We should have listened
Filed Under: medical diagnosis, psychics
Friday September 21, 2007
Go, Mitch, go!
Monday September 3, 2007
Theological dialogue with a 3-year-old boy
Monday August 27, 2007
Self-crunchifying among kids these days
Sunday August 26, 2007
Parenthood: The negation of ideology
Filed Under: crunchy conservatism
Thursday August 23, 2007
The death of a child
Filed Under: Death of a child
Tuesday August 14, 2007
Bad dream
Filed Under: Nightmares
Saturday August 11, 2007
Essence precedes existence
Saturday August 4, 2007
Slaying the fatted grape
Wednesday August 1, 2007
Family ties
Filed Under: Clintons
Goodnight, Daddy
Monday July 30, 2007
The Lord's own pizza chain
Saturday July 28, 2007
Return to Pawpaw's World
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About Crunchy Con
Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.