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Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Resurrection...
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Musician's Stimulus Package" Okay, so that's not the name Mahler gave...
sursumcorda, 26 September 2010 |
The Saturdays, and More
The Saturdays The Four-Story Mistake Then There Were Five...
Flash Update
It shouldn't have been so hard, though I'll admit I'm stubborn. Firefox has been nagging me for days to update my Flash player,...
Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise , by Dorothy Sayers (Avon, New York, 1967) Dorothy Sayers is one of my favorite authors, both fiction and...
FoxClocks
Having family all over the globe makes for an interesting life, but sometimes it's hard to know which end is up—or more...
Mommy Works and other updates
The past two weekends our family has gone to France for rehearsals for my gig this Saturday. We haven’t seen much of...
Guest Post on Free-Range Kids
Regular readers of Lift Up Your Hearts! know I'm a fan of Lenore Skenazy's Free-Range Kids blog, though I blush to admit I haven't...
The Chronological Guide to the Bible
The Chronological Guide to the Bible (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010) My review copy of this book arrived from the publisher at a...
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front . by Joel Salatin (Polyface Inc., Swoope, Virginia,...
That's Our Grandson!
For friends and family who prefer to ignore Facebook: Jonathan: Dad, the spaceship book gave me an idea, and I'm going...
The Switzerland Adventure Continues
When I first came to Switzerland I created a blog category “The Switzerland Adventure.” That adventure went a bit...
Thoughts on Two Recent Uproars
I wasn't going to write about the two recent examples of September 11-related hysteria run amok, because (a) there has already been...
New Year's Resolution #9 - End with the Beginning in Mind...
In George MacDonald's novel, Salted with Fire , I encountered the following statement: He would never rise from a...
PEKiP
This morning Joseph and I went to our first PEKiP course. PEKiP stands for Prager-Eltern-Kind Program, which means the...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 7 - Power
This is a short post, because I don't have a lot to say about electricity in Switzerland, but I like their home outlets. I'd...
Swiss Baby Adventure: Adjustments, Part 6 - Transportation
Maybe this post should be "readjustments," since I'm now home and experiencing reverse culture shock, but it's still worth talking...
What a Good Baby!
I’m not sure we fully appreciate how good Joseph is to us. Yesterday we went to a friend’s wedding and he did a...
The History of the Ancient World -- UPDATED
I am republishing my initial comments , made in December 2008, when I checked The History of the Ancient World out of the library...
Growing Fast
Joseph is growing quickly before our eyes. He can entertain himself for longer periods of time, which makes Mommy’s life...
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music , by Robert Greenberg; a Teaching Company lecture I've said it before : ...
Remembering Gabe Kron
Gabriel Kron . Of all the amazing people who have intersected with my life, he is probably the safest to write about, since he died...
Now, Suns Reverse, Moons Re-Phase...
...while I indulge in a bit of nostalgia. We moved to Central Florida not long after Disney's EPCOT Center opened. Our...
Casting the Net, Vol. 21 - Language Learning
Exposure To Two Languages Carries Far-Reaching Benefit s From this article at ScienceDaily, you can follow links to many...
Eggs Not in the News
With all the fuss lately about illness caused by salmonella in eggs from factory farms with highly dubious practices, it was...
Casting the Net, Vol. 20 - Educational Decline
I'm attacking my dauntingly long backblog again, applying the delete key ruthlessly on articles that are merely interesting. ...