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Month: January 2019

  • Thirty-One

    Thirty-One

    So…Baskin-Robbins has Thirty-One flavors of ice cream, right? Well, let’s see if I can name them. I’m going to try to list 31 ice cream flavors. No Googling, no phoning a friend, no polling the audience. Let’s see how I do. Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Rocky Road Cookies ‘n’ Creme Cookie Dough Pistachio Peanut Butter Swirl Moose…

  • Thirty

    Thirty

    Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. And once, in Sweden, February. In 1712, Sweden had a day called February 30. It all has to do with the shift from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars. The Julian calendar was designed by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE, and became the calendar of the Roman Empire, and…

  • A Simple Transaction (Video)

    A Simple Transaction (Video)

    Announcing the triumphant return of Pinewood Men. Their first video for 2019. A Simple Transaction. Click here. Or watch here: A Simple Transaction from Pete Barry on Vimeo. More Pinewood Men goodness to come throughout the year. Hopefully…

  • Twenty-Nine

    Twenty-Nine

    The moon orbits the earth once every 29.5 days. That is why there are about 29 days between full moons. About once a month, the moon’s phase shifts from full to waning to new to waxing and back again. In fact, that’s where the word “month” comes from, from an Old English word mena, meaning “moon.” What’s also…

  • Twenty-Eight

    Twenty-Eight

    28 is a perfect number. In mathematics, a perfect number is a number that is equal to the sum of all of its factors. Think back to your arithmetic days: what are the factors of 28? 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 That’s right. And if you add them all together? 1 + 2 + 4…

  • You Have Spiritual Gifts (Sermon)

    You Have Spiritual Gifts (Sermon)

    This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Third Sunday after Epiphany. The text I preached on was 1 Corinthians 12:1-12. It’s the second week (should have been the third, but ice happened last weekend) of our Stewardship Campaign.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1956. She…

  • Twenty-Seven (Guest Post)

    Twenty-Seven (Guest Post)

    This entry in the “Numbers” series was written by guest writer Pete Barry. Pete is the screenwriter of the upcoming film Marian. He is also an award-winning playwright, as well as the other half of the non-award-winning film studio “Pinewood Men.”  Follow his upcoming comedy podcast Mission: Rejected on Twitter and Instagram at @missionrejected. Thanks for giving me the day…

  • Twenty-Six

    Twenty-Six

    Ever hear of gematria? Gematria is a method of assigning numerical value to a Hebrew name, word, or phrase based on its letters. The way it works: each letter in the Hebrew alphabet is assigned a number, as follows: aleph = 1 bet = 2 gimel = 3 And so on. Once you reach 9,…

  • Twenty-Five

    Twenty-Five

    I started collecting coins around 1998. I was a very casual collector, and I still am. Every now and then, I go through the bowl of loose change we keep in our house, and look through every coin to see if there’s one I don’t yet have. I keep them all in Whitman Coin Folders.…

  • Twenty-Four

    Twenty-Four

    Shall we sing a song of sixpence? Have you a pocket full of rye? No matter, there are four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. Yes, somebody put 24 birds in a freaking pie. And despite the fact that they’ve been baked in said pie, what happens next? The pie is opened, and the birds begin to sing.…