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Not My Fault

I did place an order on Amazon.com this morning...but somehow I doubt that's what brought down the system.  Whatever; it has been...

Daddy, Tell Us a Story

Thanks to John C. Wright for bringing to my attention Story Time by Andrew Klavan, in City Journal . Read it. It may...

A Happy Story for Today

As I said before , I'm not always curmudgeonly.  Here, for your morning's delight, is an inspiring story from the blog,...

Blogging's Darker Side

Here's a scary article for you:  Emily Gould's Exposed , from the May 25, 2008 New York Times Magazine .  Andrew Keen ( The...

Question for Any Europeans, Canadians, Australians, or...

In a previous post, which was primarily about something else so I won't link to it here, I said: Having experienced the...

On Raising Boys...and Girls

My feminism tends to be of the on-again-off-again sort.  As a child—thanks to parents who encouraged me—I never...

The Cult of the Amateur

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture , by Andrew Keen (Doubleday, 2007) It's past time to get this...

Long Time No Update 6: May

May 1 st is a holiday and it was also Ascension Day, which is a holiday, but since they fell on the same day, we only got one day....

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...

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...

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