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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...

Power

In case any of you are more aware of the news than I am (I suspect that includes most of you), we have not been affected by the...

The English Patient and Forrest Gump

Has anyone here seen the movie, The English Patient ?  If so, did you like it?  If you did, why? It was the latest in...

Now If Only We Could Find Raw Milk in Switzerland

I mentioned the advantages of my customized Google News page yesterday, and here today is another example of its serendipity. One of...

My Lenten Disciplines

I love the season of Lent.  Not only because of all the great hymns associated with it, but because of the new possibilities it...

New Geography Challenge

Those of you who begin each day with my Morning Coffee page are already familiar with the Geography Zone challenge.  Thanks...

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