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Break Time!
Easter is not yet here, but Easter break is! Today was the last day of classes and I had class until 10pm. It hardly...
harp, 20 March 2008 |
What's Always in the Refrigerator?
I accept the challenge from Liz ; the subject intrigues me. What things are always found in your refrigerator? I'll...
This One's for You, Heather!
Dana Summers is one of my favorite cartoonists, partly because I like his cartoons and partly because he's a local boy. Not a...
Pre-dyed eggs
They say America is the land of the ready-made, and it might be true, but I don’t remember ever seeing pre-dyed Easter eggs,...
Blog Format Change
In reviewing the function of my blog and the changing circumstances of my life I’ve decided to try a new approach to blog...
Therefore Keep Watch
Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty Whether you attribute that quotation to Wendell Phillips, Thomas Jefferson, or Patrick...
Apologies
Our spam filter usually works really, really well, but the stupid spammers are getting more and more clever, and there were two when I...
Raclette
Last year when we went to Switzerland we tried several new Swiss dishes, but somehow missed raclette . To make up for it, this...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life , by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver...
Palm Sunday!
Happy Palm Sunday, one and all! The choir sang for two services today, so we had double the fun. Those of you who live up...
Basic Hygiene? Thoughts on Deciding to Skip Breakfast...
One of the strangest and most difficult aspects of interacting with other people is discovering those areas which you consider to be...
Update continued . . .
It was too bad I couldn’t share the Renaissance dance concert with anyone, but I was blessed with the attendance of a number of...
Happy Pi Day!
Not until I was writing the date on a customs form did I remember this most numerically felicitous of days. I found this joke...
Bad Baby Names
Since—ta da!—we expect our fourth grandchild in October , and since choosing a baby's name has an aura of sacrament in...
The Thrill of Victory
I've known the Agony of Defeat often enough when it comes to the sport of e-mail balancing, but today I glory in a victory: My...
Endeavour Launch
I had hoped to bring you video of tonight's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour . Night launches are rare and beautiful. ...
Crunchy Cons
Two years ago, Andy F. alerted me to a National Review article by Rod Dreher entitled Crunchy Cons . This was actually a...
My Best Soporific
As Janet has mentioned (in her comment on My Lenten Disciplines ), nothing sends me to sleep faster than staring at the television...
Through Different Eyes
For those of you who don't read Heather and Jon's blog , I can't resist posting this view of life through the eyes of a four-year-old...
Hooked on Skype Video
It's another one of those things I lived without just fine, thank you, though now I wonder why I waited so long. Blame an...
Ibis Parade
Now here's something we don't see every day. In fact, this is the first time. I looked out the front window, saw a flock...
Driving Miss Daisy
I am so tired of being grumpy about the movies we've seen recently in our Oscar-winning Best Picture Odyssey. I should mention...
Time to Brag. Time for an Update! (Computer problems,...
I blame Skype. Stephan introduced me to it and now I can have a quick chat with my mom whenever I want to. That...
Who's Visiting?
Having discovered FEEDJIT on Stephanie's blog , I had to try it myself. (That's the "Recent Visitors" map in the panel to...
Andrew Pudewa
I am on an Andrew Pudewa kick. I first discovered his Institute for Excellence in Writing through an online forum for early...