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...
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...
The weather forecast given on our local classical music stations considers itself to be grim. But highs in the mid-90's, although...
Tom Grosh alerted me to this October, 2003 Christianity Today interview with Yale University professor Lamin Sanneh , Sanneh's...
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...
A U. S. Department of Agriculture study has determined that watermelons stored at room temperature * are far more nutritious than...
In 1971 I worked with researchers at the University of Rochester who were studying the algae blooms that were making a mess of...
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...
The good news is that Starchild Abraham Cherrix and his family finally found a judge brave enough to lift the lower court order that...
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...
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...
Saturday morning I did my best to do productive work even though I was still sad and unmotivated from having said goodbye to Shirane....
Home Education Magazine has a great article by Deborah Markus called Being a Cheerful Rebel . Sometimes being a nonconformist...
[R]esistance entails conceiving of parenting as an act of rebellion against American culture. For example, for parents merely to...
True power remains with individuals. Ultimately we have the power to shape and even change lives. It is unleashed when...
We always expected our children to surpass their parents; after all, they have the advantage of standing on our shoulders, and of...
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...
On the long weekend (Sat.-Mon.) I went with two families from Hippo to a condo in Nagano . Biki and Piccolo (Hippo nicknames) and...
Today I smiled a lot and said "matta ne" to the students and teachers at Shirane high school. Many people waved goodbye...
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...
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...
I've mentioned before that Jonathan is highly verbal, especially for a two year old boy. I hate stereotypes and the judgement of...
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...
When Larry Summers, then President of Harvard, dared suggest that genetic differences between men and women might, in general,...
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...