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Good Friday Thoughts
Is there anything worse than excruciating physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual torture and death? It takes nothing from the...
sursumcorda, 3 April 2010 |
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...
Homeschooling for the Rest of Us
Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work , by Sonya Haskins...
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Hal France Returns
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Mozart: Concerto No. 1 for...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Walt Disney Pictures, 2003, PG-13) I realize I'm seven years...
Who Do You Think You Are?
I had to watch it, since my genealogical organizations, websites, and contacts kept bringing it to my attention: NBC's new...
Artisanal Pianos
Beer, bread, cheese...and now musical instruments. Jan Swafford's recent Slate article, In Search of Lost Sounds ,...
Saint Patrick (the Book)
Saint Patrick , by Jonathan Rogers (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010) This new biography of the man whose feast day we...
IT'S A . . .
. . . Baby! Just one, and "es" is alive and kicking. "Es" let us see many details in the ultra sound,...
Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time , by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin...