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Fruitless Fall
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis , by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury, New York,...
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Three Months!
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...
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,...
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 :...
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...
First Gig Post Baby
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...
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...
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...