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Things Not to Leave for Your Heirs to Sort Through

I mentioned in the last post that I am cleaning the kitchen. (You can tell how easy this project is by how many blog posts I've written...

 
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Johari Window

Jon's Johari Window was a nice break from cleaning the kitchen, so I decided to set up one for myself. There's more to the Johari...

 
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Stay Cool!

The weather forecast given on our local classical music stations considers itself to be grim. But highs in the mid-90's, although...

 
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The Future of Christianity

Tom Grosh alerted me to this October, 2003 Christianity Today interview with Yale University professor Lamin Sanneh , Sanneh's...

 
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Dumbing Down Politics

You didn't think our political culture could go any lower? In a reminder that we have made no forward progress since 1999, when David...

 
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For Food Storage, Colder Is Not Always Better

A U. S. Department of Agriculture study has determined that watermelons stored at room temperature * are far more nutritious than...

 
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Terrors of the Deep

In 1971 I worked with researchers at the University of Rochester who were studying the algae blooms that were making a mess of...

 
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Book "Meme"

I know I’m an independent sort of blogger. My need is to write, and I use the blog format because the LifeType software is so...

 
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The Medical Police

The good news is that Starchild Abraham Cherrix and his family finally found a judge brave enough to lift the lower court order that...

 
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Sumimasen! Crosswalk Music!

I can't recommend the movie Lost in Translation to anyone I know. It's an R-rated film with an uninspiring story and scenes you'd...

 
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Swing Girls

If you live in the United States, you may never have a chance to see the movie, Swing Girls . It is presently unavailable in this...

 
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Weekend July 22nd-23rd (adventure with exchange students...

Posted in IrishOboe

Saturday morning I did my best to do productive work even though I was still sad and unmotivated from having said goodbye to Shirane....

 
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Coping Strategies for RETHINKers

Home Education Magazine has a great article by Deborah Markus called Being a Cheerful Rebel . Sometimes being a nonconformist...

 
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The Resistance - Neil Postman

[R]esistance entails conceiving of parenting as an act of rebellion against American culture. For example, for parents merely to...

 
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The Resistance - Cal Thomas

True power remains with individuals. Ultimately we have the power to shape and even change lives. It is unleashed when...

 
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RETHINK - I Never Expected to Be a Revolutionary, but Our...

We always expected our children to surpass their parents; after all, they have the advantage of standing on our shoulders, and of...

 
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Update July 18th-21st Last Week of School

Posted in IrishOboe

Time is flying by and I only have two more weeks in Japan . I’m finding it so hard to believe I’m not living like it’s...

 
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Hippo Family Club Homestay #2 (July 15th-17th)

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On the long weekend (Sat.-Mon.) I went with two families from Hippo to a condo in Nagano . Biki and Piccolo (Hippo nicknames) and...

 
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Last Day of School

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Today I smiled a lot and said "matta ne" to the students and teachers at Shirane high school. Many people waved goodbye...

 
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To Shirane Students!

Posted in IrishOboe

Hello! Thanks for looking at my homepage! Four students have E-mailed me! I'm so happy! You can write, too! I will miss Shirane...

 
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Jonathan Quote of the Day

We brought Noah to church, but he's still nice. Jonathan loves going to church, so I'm not at all sure what he meant...

 
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Jonathan and Aunt Janet

I've mentioned before that Jonathan is highly verbal, especially for a two year old boy. I hate stereotypes and the judgement of...

 
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What Hath Postmodernism Wrought?

While doing a Google search for a friend's blog, I came upon this exchange on someone else's blog. To be fair, I know nothing about...

 
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Unwarranted Sex Discrimination Is Alive and Well

When Larry Summers, then President of Harvard, dared suggest that genetic differences between men and women might, in general,...

 
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Janet Stars in Kabuki (July 11, 2006)

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Miwako invited me to go to a kabuki concert a long time ago and I’d never seen it so I accepted even though the ticket was like...