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Nobody Knows What Childbirth is Like and How To Get Rich...

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My attempt to imbed a video: Video Link In this TED talk by behavior economist Daniel Kahneman there is a...

 
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Our Baby For Real

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Yesterday we took some belly pictures and this was hubby's choice for the blog.  I don't stay in this position always, but I do...

 
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National Treasure

National Treasure (Walt Disney Pictures, 2004, PG) I may have discovered the secret of enjoying movies:  low...

 
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Kicking!

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Yesterday Daddy got to feel baby kick for the first time!  I've been feeling baby's excercises for a number of weeks, but up until...

 
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Pssst! Wanna Buy an Essay?

What drives spam?  Money, obviously.  And sin.  Sin on both ends:  the sin of greed on the part of the spammer,...

 
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Blogging Mistakes?

Someone else posted an enthusiastic link to Michael Hyatt's Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog?   That I am not so...

 
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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year , by Daniel Defoe (New American Library, New York, 1960) I first read this as a requirement for...

 
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Our New Baby!

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We’d been thinking about it for quite some time, but we finally acted and we couldn’t be happier.   Take a look at...

 
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Jamie Oliver and Food

Jamie Oliver , a British chef, is apparently a big hit in Europe.  (Perhaps here, too; that I had never heard of him doesn't mean...

 
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The University of Rochester's WeBWork

This article about the mathematics department at the University of Rochester credits much of their recent success to an online...

 
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Just Courage

Just Courage:  God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian , by Gary Haugen (InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois,...

 
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Weapons of Mass Instruction

Weapons of Mass Instruction:  A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling , by John Taylor Gatto...

 
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A Flock of Robins

We don't see robins much at all here, but when we do, they are a lmost always in flocks .  Having grown up with the excitement of...

 
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That's Our Family!

This is SO typical of our wonderfully nerdy family that I had to share Jon's birthday cake here.

 
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The Selfless Gene

The Selfless Gene:  Living with God and Darwin , by Charles Foster (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2009) Charles Foster...

 
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New Year's Resolution #2 - Rediscover Feasting

Having made my first New Year's resolution on January 8, it is fitting that I add my second today. At first glance, resolving...

 
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The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Omnivore's Dilemma:  A Natural History of Four Meals , by Michael Pollan (Penguin, New York, 2006) My limited...

 
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Godspeed, Endeavour!

A night launch of the space shuttle is always worth waking up for, even if you have to do it two days in a row and put on a coat...

 
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Monday, Monday

You'd think that being freed from the 9 - 5 routine, Mondays wouldn't bother me.  (What's with 9 - 5 anyway?  When I was...

 
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The Right Tool in the Right Place

Sometimes the difference between a useless tool and a helpful one, or a good tool and a great one, is merely a matter of imagination....

 
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The Raid

Is there a word, in any language, for "my daughter's husband's cousin's husband"?  That's what Kevin Michael Johnson...

 
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Mayflower

Mayflower:  A Story of Courage, Community, and War , by Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin, New York, 2006)  Whatever your...

 
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Theatre Shoes

Theatre Shoes , by Noel Streatfeild (Dell, New York, 1983) This wasn't on my reading list at this time, but the...

 
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Our Simple, Delicious Dinner

Ah, a glass of red wine, bruschetta (made with homemade bread), and a Porter-made salad with spring greens, scallions, artichoke...

 
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Shakespeare: The Word and the Action

Shakespeare:  The Word and the Action , by Peter Saccio; a Teaching Company lecture For accessible, serious,...