When my daughter Mary Rose was 15 years old (4 years ago), Georgette enrolled her in a couple of classes at Illinois Central College.  At that time, I bought her a cell phone so she would be able to call from school if she needed anything.  The first voicemail message she recorded for callers to listen to when she wasn’t available to answer the phone went something like this:

Hi this is Mary Rose.  [...] Read More »]]> http://www.adoration.com/2011/the-last-movie-star/feed/ 1 http://www.adoration.com/2010/lady-gaga-is-not-a-real-%e2%80%9clady%e2%80%9d/ http://www.adoration.com/2010/lady-gaga-is-not-a-real-%e2%80%9clady%e2%80%9d/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:29:36 +0000 Harry http://www.adoration.com/?p=294 I have a rule that my teenage daughters are not allowed to download any songs from the Internet to play on their iPods until I’ve given my approval.  Do you know what I call the wires that come out of an iPod and connect onto the small earphones that go into a teenager’s ears?  Pipelines.  Here’s what travels through those pipelines: (1) sewage that is pumped directly into our children’s brains (and imaginations) that will [...] Read More »]]> http://www.adoration.com/2010/lady-gaga-is-not-a-real-%e2%80%9clady%e2%80%9d/feed/ 1