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Academia, Family, and Life
I like academia. I love college campuses, chem labs, and the smell of libraries with old books. Places and institutions dedicated to...
sursumcorda, 30 May 2008 |
Treasure Beyond the Gate
I recently finished reading a book called The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption...
Umlauts in the Family
Don't take my word for it; read about Our Big News in Janet's own words (and pictures). For the really curious, you can find a...
Big News
Puzzle #1: What event does this picture reveal? Puzzle #2: When did this happen?...
Long Time No Update 5: Fourth Week of April
Obviously I haven’t had a class canceled in a while as it’s been super long since I’ve gotten a chance to write....
Memorial Day, 2008
I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger:...
The Phoenix Has Landed
Thanks to Janet reminding me (she'll have to write her own post as to why), I was able to watch NASA TV live coverage of the landing...
Food-Lag for Jet-Lag
I actually enjoy airplane food, perhaps because I don't eat it all that often. It's part of the adventure of flying, and...
One Step for Freedom in Pennsylvania (at least until the...
I don't enjoy reporting bad news, really. It makes me sound old and curmudgeonly. Okay, so I am old and curmudgeonly,...
Barack Obama
I don't yet know how I'm voting in the upcoming presidential election, though I do know it will be a matter of the least objectionable...
Too Many Open Doors
I'm chronically bad at making decisions. Not that I usually make bad ones; actually, most of them end up being pretty...
What Would You Save if Your House Were on Fire?
The proper answer, at least as taught in elementary school, is "nothing." Get yourself out as fast as you can; don't waste time...
Prince Caspian
P rince Caspian , One Sentence Review: Not a bad movie, but several times I had to wonder where the story line came from. A few...
James Bond -- 40 Years Later
Having finished watching all the available “Best Picture” Oscar-winners—all except for one or two he decided early...
Going to Italy
I won't have time for an update for a while, but to keep yourself entertained you can check out the five star hotel I'll be staying...
Family History without Regrets
I recently read the answers to a genealogist's request for people's "top three genealogical regrets," and discovered that I...
Genealogy in Flesh and Blood
Earlier this month the Seattle Times ran a heartwarming genealogy story by Jan Burak Schwert about her husband's accidental...
The Evangelical Manifesto
Having been alerted to the Evangelical Manifesto by both GroshLink and John Stackhouse , I decided it was probably worth...
Pentecost and Mother's Day
A friend of mine once lamented that at her church Mother's Day received more attention than Easter. I'm sure most churches do...
Come to the Cabaret, and Opera without Costumes
As my father would say, we were sloppin' up culture like a hawg yesterday. (I believe the reference was to a L'il Abner comic...
The Cult of the Amateur, Somewhere in the Middle of the...
The Cult of the Amateur , by Andrew Keen (Doubleday, 2007) I'm finally reading the book I first wrote about a month an a...
Long Time No Update 4: Third Week of April
I had some classes canceled again today, so I figured I should continue the trend of catching up with updates since soon I’ll...
Do You Think It's Hard to Be a Woman Today?
Today's NEHGS eNews includes the following lovely passage written on July 4, 1632 by New England Puritan leader John Winthrop ....
Long Time No Update 3: Second Week of April
I woke up this morning to find that my morning classes had been canceled. I decided to celebrate by writing an update before...
A Robust Faith?
I won't pretend anything other than a highly selfish interest in my dismay at the decision by the Catholic Church to forbid...