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Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!
The alarm going off at 6:15 wasn't exactly my idea of the ideal way to begin a Saturday, but it was worth it. The occasion was...
sursumcorda, 10 April 2010 |
Can't Get It Out of My Head
This started as a comment to the Sockdolager post on Daley Ponderings , but it turned out to be long and off-topic, so I migrated it...
Are We Up (Down) to P.P.W. Now?
A friend of mine likes to clean out her files periodically, and when she does I know to expect an envelope in the mail. She's...
Stones into Schools
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan , by Greg Mortenson (Viking Penguin,...
New Year's Resolution #4 - Like More Things
There's nothing like establishing a pattern of making a new resolution on the 8 th of every month to make one aware of how quickly...
Easter Eggs and Birthdays
Stephan made some pretty Easter eggs with some old parsely leaves and onion peels for dye. I think they came out quite...
What Success Cannot Teach
Our greatest involvement in our children's public schools came during the heyday of the self-esteem movement, and I recall the...
Easter Greetings
Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! We do know the proper first words of Easter morning. They...
Good Friday Thoughts
Is there anything worse than excruciating physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual torture and death? It takes nothing from the...
The Gobblestone School
The Gobblestone School: A Tale Inspired by the German Criminalization of Homeschooling , by Jacob Schriftman (aka Jokim Schnoebbe)...
End of the 2nd Trimester
Police Catch Pregnant Lady Walking Barefoot in the City
We're starting to have signs of spring here in Basel and I've been celebrating by walking to school without shoes. My, oh my how my...
"Cash for Clunkers" Bait and Switch
"Cash for Clunkers," Appliance Edition . I've been looking forward to Florida's appliance rebate program ever since I...
Processed Food Addiction
CNN Health reported a study in which rats, allowed unlimited access to bacon, sausage, cheesecake, frosting, and other high-calorie...
Indoctrinate U
Indoctrinate U (On the Fence Films, 2007) Indoctrinate U has been on my "watch list" for a while, but I...
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Janet alerted me to Jamie Oliver ; DSTB followed up with what is apparently a new show on ABC. It starts next Friday, but the...
Liberty, Justice, and Economic Security for All
Cleaning out old things, found this Hagar the Horrible comic, probably from last October. (The link is to the current comic;...
The Winter Park Art Festival
Today was a wonderful, sunny-but-not-too-hot day, perfect for the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival . This is a huge annual...
Census 2010
Our census form arrived. In a word: B-O-R-I-N-G. It's a good thing for future genealogists that we have so many...
Two by Peter Kreeft
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley , by Peter...
In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto , by Michael Pollan (Penguin, New York, 2008) I'm in the middle (okay, the...
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov , by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hovel Audio, read by Simon Vance, abridged by Thomas R. Beyer) I normally...
The Purpose of the U. S. Census
Article 1, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution lays the groundwork for conducting a periodic census in order to provide proportional...
Homeschooling, Textbooks, Bias, and Risk
It's not a topic I'd intended to blog about, even though I'd read the AP article, Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution...
New Year's Resolution #3 - Learn to Relax
Not that we're anywhere near January 1, but I seem to have begun a habit of making a new resolution on the 8 th of the month, so why...