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Bravo!
I know you're all—one or two of you, anyway—waiting with bated breath for the next installment of the Hawaiian...
sursumcorda, 5 June 2011 |
Hawaii, Day 3 - Part 1
Our concierge had informed us of Waikoloa Village Market , where the locals buy groceries, so yesterday we picked up a few supplies,...
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation , by Lynne Truss (Gotham Books, New York, 2003)...
Lost and Found Providence
Providence, Rhode Island. My college roommate was from Providence. I drank an Awful Awful at the Newport Creamery on one...
Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra - Finale Concert
It had been a few years since our last visit to a concert of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra , and I couldn't help thinking...
Hand Blender
I dislike shopping. (Those who know me, also know how understated that is, but "loathe" seems too strong a word to use about...
The Garden is Planted!
Most of it, anyway. Stephan entertained Joseph last Saturday while I did the final preparations for the garden and did some...
Joseph Update
May 10 th Joseph was standing at the coffee table when he took both hands off to clap for me. He stood a few seconds before he...
So What's Your Daughter Doing in Switzerland?
At last, an explanation of what Janet did in Basel before Joseph was born: Early Music (H/T Andy B.), and Barefoot Running...
I Am David (North to Freedom)
I Am David (2003, PG) Six years ago, my sister-in-law informed me that one of my favorite books, Anne Holm’s North to...
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Joshua Bell
Daniel May: The Tall and the Small Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Christopher Wilkins,...
Indiana Jones in Narnia
How can you take a book without one single battle scene and turn it into an action movie? "How" is actually quite well answered by...
The Plug-In Drug
I’ve been making more of a point to read recently, and “The Plug-In Drug” happened to be the book of choice. I...
Hawaii, Day 2
We slept well until 4:30 a.m. That sounds early, but it’s not unusual for us to start the day ony an hour later. Not...
A Souvenir for the Worms
I'm still working on Hawaii, Day 2, so today you get to see the souvenir we brought home—for the worms. It's billed as a...
Hawaii, Day 1
If a good neighbor is one who watches out for your home while you are gone, and a great neighbor takes care of your mail and pets (even...
Transglutaminase, aka Meat Glue
Here's a quick story for you while I work on the Hawaii posts. First the bad news. The report is from Australia, but the...
Water Rocket Launcher
This is the best thing to do with a soda bottle since Diet Coke and Mentos. The insructions are clear, and the cost of materials...
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success , by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2008) Malcolm Gladwell’s...
Climbing, Talking, Signing, House Broken?
Last Thursday Joseph turned ten months. I can’t decide if that’s long or short and I certainly can’t remember...
A Day in Emmen: Fighter Jets, Pool Accomplishments, and...
Some days everything seems to go wrong and other days everything seems to line up. Most days are a bit in between, but here is an...
Mini Update
The day after I blogged about how great ECing with Joseph is I missed nearly every one of his pees for two days. Things have been...
Sabbath, by Dan B. Allender
Sabbath , by Dan B. Allender (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2009) Mystical poets who enjoy attempting to express the inexpressible...
The Mother Tongue and Troublesome Words
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way (first published 1991, reissued by Perennial 2001) and...
Easter's Coming
Ride on! ride on in majesty! Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh; the Father on his sapphire throne expects his own anointed...