All RSS

Global Article Categories

  • All
harp

Working on the Farm

Posted in IrishOboe

Happy 10.10.10 or 10/10/10!  However you slice it, it’s a cool day. Yesterday our family headed out to the Birsmatte farm...

 
sursumcorda

Non Campus Mentis

Non Campus Mentis:  World History According to College Students , compiled by Anders Henriksson (Workman Publishing, New...

 
sursumcorda

Comment Moderation

Can you believe I get tired of hearing that my blog is absolutly brilliant, and the commenter can't wait to share it with his friends?...

 
sursumcorda

New Year's Resolution #10 - Care More about Other People,...

This resolution has been coming up on my agenda for months, only to be replaced by what seemed to be a more urgent or appropriate...

 
sursumcorda

Faith, Struggle, Death, Grief

Can it have been almost four years since Kelly James, Brian Hall and Nikko Cooke died in a blizzard on Mt. Hood ?  I'm not...

 
harp

Rolling Over!

Posted in IrishOboe

Joseph seems to be making leaps and bounds and sleeping to recover from all his work.  That makes for a happier momma as I’m...

 
sursumcorda

Harm Reduction - and Grace

"Harm reduction," a new term to me, though not a new concept, is a controversial approach to social problems, in which...

 
sursumcorda

Jonathan and the Drill

I haven't time for a long post this morning, so here's the story I alluded to yesterday. There is one upside to allowing...

 
sursumcorda

Free-Range Kids (the Book)

Free-Range Kids:  Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry , by Lenore Skenazy (Jossey-Bass,...

 
sursumcorda

The Secret to Creativity

Jonathan's birthday is coming up, and he told me what he really wants:  a real Boba Fett costume, from the local costume...

 
sursumcorda

The New Monitor

Not long ago, my lovely external monitor gave out completely.  I suppose I could complain about how nothing lasts well these...

 
sursumcorda

Fruitless Fall

Fruitless Fall:  The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis , by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury, New York,...

 
harp

Three Months!

Posted in IrishOboe

It’s is crazy to think I have only been a mother (with a baby outside the womb) for three months.  What a whirlwind ride it...

 
sursumcorda

Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites ...and Other Lies...

Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites ...and Other Lies You've Been Told , by Bradley R. E. Wright (Bethany House, Minneapolis,...

 
sursumcorda

I Want One -- and It's Swiss!

Micro Mobility Systems makes classy scooters, and look what I discovered when I ventured onto their website from a FRK article :...

 
sursumcorda

Back on FRK

I have another post on Free-Range Kids.  You've probably read most of it here already, in my review of the Melendy books , but...

 
harp

First Gig Post Baby

Posted in IrishOboe

Long ago in the innocent days of pregnancy I agreed to play a concert in October with the thought that I should have life with a...

 
sursumcorda

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

The Saturdays, and More

         The Saturdays The Four-Story Mistake Then There Were Five...

 
sursumcorda

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,...

 
sursumcorda

Murder Must Advertise

Murder Must Advertise , by Dorothy Sayers (Avon, New York, 1967) Dorothy Sayers is one of my favorite authors, both fiction and...

 
sursumcorda

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...

 
harp

Mommy Works and other updates

Posted in IrishOboe

The past two weekends our family has gone to France for rehearsals for my gig this Saturday.  We haven’t seen much of...

 
sursumcorda

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...

 
sursumcorda

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...