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God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5) And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or...
sursumcorda, 15 August 2004 |
Charley - Saturday Night
8/14/04 10:00 p.m. Our power was restored at 7:45 p.m. We had spent the day trying to conserve cool air, in the house, the...
Charley - Saturday Morning
8/14/04 9:00 a.m. This won’t be long, as I don’t want to use too much of the laptop’s battery; there is as yet no...
Charley - Friday Night
8/13/04 9:20 p.m. Bringing the computer down now. Love you all! Hope to post good news in the morning.
Charley - Friday Evening 8:50pm
8/13/04 8:50 p.m. Just lost power; it came back on in a few seconds. But it may be a harbinger of things to come....
Charley - Friday Evening 8:45pm
8/13/04 8:45 p.m. Wind really picking up now. I hear tree branches falling on the roof. They sound large but I know from...
Charley - Friday Evening 8:30pm
8/13/04 8:30 p.m. The rain's picking up now, and so is the wind. Still less than a normal summer storm. Right now we're just...
Charley - Friday Evening 7:15pm
8/13/04 7:15 p.m. Charley is now a Category 3, and some of the commentators are talking almost as if it's all over. But it's not here...
Charley - Friday Evening 6:40pm
8/13/04 6:40 p.m. Time to make some dinner, while we still have power. We've filled almost every available container with water....
Charley - Friday Afternoon 5pm
8/13/04 5:00 p.m. I'm taking a break at the moment. We've brought the potential missiles inside, and have positioned the cars right...
Charley - Friday Afternoon 4pm
8/13/04 4:00 p.m. Janet and I just returned safely from her voice lesson. It had looked as if we would have plenty of...
Charley - Friday Morning
8/13/04 11:00 a.m. We awoke this morning to the eerie, sultry pre-hurricane stillness, though if I hadn't known a hurricane was...
Charley - Thursday Night
8/12/04 10:00 p.m. Janet just creamed us in Quiddler, so it's time for bed. We'll check on Charley in the morning.
Hurricane Charley - Thursday Evening
During our 20 years in Central Florida, we had experienced no more than the outskirts of a hurricane, although in 1999 Floyd was...
Options in Childbirth: A Personal Odyssey
When they put the sugar back into baby food, I should have known it was a bad sign. Progress is often a tidal creek, not a river....
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Learning Everywhere, All the Time
The proper place and best place for children to learn whatever they need or want to know is the place where until very recently...
Okay? Is Not Okay
When adults want children to do something—put on coats, take a nap, etc.—they often say, “Let’s put on...
Love of Learning
We adults destroy most of the intellectual and creative capacity of children by the things we do to them or make them do. We...
Hallowe'en
This Hallowe’en we had not a single trick-or-treater come to our door, perhaps due in part to confusion as to the day. Some of our...
This Is Why I'm Not a "Real" Teacher
We went to the Orlando Museum of Art to see a special exhibit of Hudson River School paintings, and our attention was captured by a...
Creative Work
One day my sister wrote, "I am busy, but I can't figure out why I have nothing to show for it. I do a lot of driving and a lot of...