CNN Health reported a study in which rats, allowed unlimited access to bacon, sausage, cheesecake, frosting, and other high-calorie...
Indoctrinate U (On the Fence Films, 2007) Indoctrinate U has been on my "watch list" for a while, but I...
Janet alerted me to Jamie Oliver ; DSTB followed up with what is apparently a new show on ABC. It starts next Friday, but the...
Cleaning out old things, found this Hagar the Horrible comic, probably from last October. (The link is to the current comic;...
Today was a wonderful, sunny-but-not-too-hot day, perfect for the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival . This is a huge annual...
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...
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley , by Peter...
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 , by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hovel Audio, read by Simon Vance, abridged by Thomas R. Beyer) I normally...
Article 1, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution lays the groundwork for conducting a periodic census in order to provide proportional...
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...
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: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work , by Sonya Haskins...
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 (Walt Disney Pictures, 2003, PG-13) I realize I'm seven years...
I had to watch it, since my genealogical organizations, websites, and contacts kept bringing it to my attention: NBC's new...
Beer, bread, cheese...and now musical instruments. Jan Swafford's recent Slate article, In Search of Lost Sounds ,...
Saint Patrick , by Jonathan Rogers (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010) This new biography of the man whose feast day we...
. . . Baby! Just one, and "es" is alive and kicking. "Es" let us see many details in the ultra sound,...
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time , by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin...
My attempt to imbed a video: Video Link In this TED talk by behavior economist Daniel Kahneman there is a...
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...
National Treasure (Walt Disney Pictures, 2004, PG) I may have discovered the secret of enjoying movies: low...
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...
What drives spam? Money, obviously. And sin. Sin on both ends: the sin of greed on the part of the spammer,...