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Creating a Camper from a Pop-up Trailer

The same guy who brought you the 18-Minute Cabin  had an old, broken down pop-up camper that he decided to renovate from the...

 
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Keep Your Feet on the Ground and Your Head on Straight

I'm not posting the article I read about the latest efforts of China and other worrisome countries to use AI to divide and conquer...

 
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Vivek Ramaswamy

I don't like to pay too much attention to elections until things have shaken themselves out enough to narrow the field somewhat. I'm...

 
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Pippa Malmgren - Space Wars, Rich Men North of Richmond,...

Have you ever heard of Pippa Malmgren? Maybe you have—not everyone is as ignorant of current events and culture as I am. Let's...

 
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One of the Things Our Church Does Best

There's an Episcopal/Anglican magazine called The Living Church, which I'll admit I've never read and am therefore not endorsing nor...

 
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It Should Have Felt More Uncomfortable

Earlier this week I both took a Covid test and wore a face mask for the first time in a long time. I hadn't been planning to do either....

 
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The Black Stallion, with Nostalgia

EReaderIQ  is my good friend, and it ought to be Amazon's, given how much of my business they've sent the company's way. I...

 
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A Surprising Sight

Yesterday we were driving home from a Saturday outing of museum + Cheesecake Factory, when we saw a small group of people waiting to...

 
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Hurricane Idalia

I wonder how many internet searches have been made in the past week for "Idalia name origin." When I made mine this morning, this is...

 
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18-Minute Cabin

The builders in our family might enjoy this video.  I'm not a builder, but I loved watching this cabin-in-the-woods go together...

 
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All Things Bright and Beautiful

For all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who...

 
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Changes

I began this blog almost 20 years ago, a fact that astounds me. In those years I have written some 3200 posts. Where have those 20 years...

 
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Don't Miss This Opportunity - The Fall of Heaven

Twice now I have published my review of Andrew Scott Cooper's The Fall of Heaven:   The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial...

 
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Our Number One Job

Tomorrow will still come, our objectives have not changed, and our number one job is to work toward tomorrow and those...

 
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Plateaus in Progress

Here's an excerpt that I found interesting from an exchange between DarkHorse host Brett Weinstein and philosopher Steve Patterson....

 
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Put It in Writing, Please

Insist on answers to your letters in writing. "Come in and we'll talk" is never an acceptable answer. I'm still cleaning out...

 
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Languages Beautiful and Ugly

Here's a fun RobWords episode (17.5 minutes) on what makes languages sound beautiful or ugly to our ears. And why German is given such...

 
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Asking the Questions - Allergies, Autism, Autoimmune...

Awesome news. I just learned that one of the young doctors in our family is going into the field of pediatric allergies, and I can't...

 
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The Connecticut Sun

This Florida girl may have (re)learned that the Connecticut sun isn't as wimpy as it first appears. After some days when the...

 
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Wecome to the Monkey House

 
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Losing Faith in the Medical Profession - Again

How is trust broken? It may be by a sudden betrayal, but often you wake up one day and realize that the perfidy has been a long time...

 
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Sound of Freedom

It's not often we go to a movie theater. Seriously. I may have forgotten something, but I believe the last time we did so was in 2016,...

 
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How Businesses Can Help Save the World Without Being...

Enough is enough. I won't drink Bud Light. I won't buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Big deal. I don't like beer, and I've long...

 
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The Southern Saint

Mid-July is a good time to pay my annual homage to Saint Willis Carrier. He's not a Catholic saint, nor an Anglican saint, nor a saint...

 
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The Bagel and Lox Sandwich, All from Scratch

Everybody knows and loves bagels. But would you believe I'd never eaten, seen, or even heard of bagels until I went to college? My...

 
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