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No Hiding Place
Like the Internet itself, YouTube reveals the secrets you thought you'd left far behind you. Even when they're not secrets....
sursumcorda, 11 April 2009 |
Easter Cannot Come Too Soon
Looking back at my Lenten disciplines for 2009, I find it was a surprising exercise. While I can't say I was perfect in...
Casting the Net, Vol. 8
From the frequency of my posting recently, my overwhelmed readers can see I'm hacking away at a hugh backlog. Here's...
Free Speech, Free Markets, and (Un)Common Decency
Thanks to Percival Blakeney Academy for publicising Southern Utah University communicatio major Jeffrey Wilbur's direct and pithy...
Fireproof, and Facing the Giants
(I'll be including some links in this post, but follow them with care if you think there's a chance you'll want to watch the movies,...
Genius Is as Genius Does
A brilliant student, Marcus sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned As. Marcus...
Urban Architecture
There is a place for what used to be called salty language in our discourse. As a seasoning, however, it is more like Dave's...
Two More from FPR
Green is as green does . [Quoting Desperate (Green) Housewives ] The greenest people are totally unhip and unlikely to...
Good, Clean Fun in Any Language
Where does Stephanie find these things? I'm four days late but have to share this anyway. If their country is no longer...
The Front Porch Republic
I know—the last thing you need is another blog to read! And the one I’m about to recommend had several authors and...
Conservationist Living
Observant readers may have noted a new category of post, which I’ve labelled “Conservationist Living.” When...
Chemistry 101
Today at the grocery store I bought sugar. This is not a confession; I refuse to feel guilty for the purchase. After all,...
Work Less, Save the World
Keep Meadows, Not Lawns . That's the title of a Front Porch Republic post (more on the FPR later), the sole content of which...
Declining by Degrees (PBS Documentary)
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk premiered on PBS in 2005; I watched it for the first time this week, intrigued by...
Take Back the Juice!
I grew up on orange juice reconstituted from frozen concentrate, but I have since forgiven my parents. It was convenient and...
My Nephew Taught Me to Fib
A Fib Is not A lie, nor Poetic license, But homage to Fibonacci.
Our New Pets
We're not much of a pet family. We had a cat for a few years, but he didn't get along with the new baby. He was old and...
Generational Stereotyping
Once again I'm piggy-backing on something Jon posted in Google Reader, but I haven't figured out how to comment on any of the "shared...
Extreme Shepherding
This showed up in my Google Reader feed, from Jon. I'm not certain, actually, that this was the video he intended, as I had to...
Sunday's Launch
This time I had my camera ready. Click on an image to see the whole, larger picture. Up, up and away......
Strawberries!
Lord of the Rings fans may remember Shire Year 1420, when "the fruit was so plentiful that young hobbits very nearly bathed in...
Administrative Matters
As I try to steer a course between providing too much information and too little, let me attempt to explain what I plan to institute...
Therefore Keep Watch Redux
I've written often enough about threats to the fundamental right of parents to educate their own children: the dreadful...
Nathan Smith (1770-1850) and Margery Irwin (1776-1867)
My great-great-great-grandfather, Nathan Smith, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1770. His mother died when he was six or...
"They Came First for the Communists...."
I'm going to use my proverb until it catches on: The wise man recognizes truth in the words of his enemies . And the...