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EPCOT's International Food and Wine Festival
With the nonchalance of season passholders, we spent the day at EPCOT’s International Food and Wine Festival . The park was not...
sursumcorda, 16 October 2004 |
The Lake Brantley Standing Patriot Band
We went to a high school football game tonight. It was a great night for it, cool enough for long pants and a sweatshirt, our first...
Asthma, Allergies, and Vitamins
Finally, researchers are beginning to pay serious attention to the frightening rise in allergies and asthma among children. For too long...
The Incompatibility of Rubber Cement and Contact Paper
I have been working on a project that involves gluing two sheets of cardstock together, then laminating the result with clear contact...
Birth Control and Homosexuality
Research by a team of Italian researchers suggests a genetic link between homosexuality and fertility . A study of 98 homosexual...
Blog Format
I'm experimenting with different colors and styles for my blog, so don't be shocked if it feels a bit like a boat in rough seas for a while.
Martyrdom and Masochism
No Christian can rule out the possibility that he may be called upon to be a martyr. Be that as it may, I don't believe any of us is...
We're Harboring a Mole
That's not how I customarily describe our houseguests, but this one is a friend from Rochester, NY whose purpose in visiting is...
Flu Shots
It looks as if this will be the first season in over 10 years that we won't get our flu shots. We started the habit long before flu...
Rent a Movie?
I suppose we should be watching the presidential debates tonight. But I already know how I'm going to vote on that race. (We need to...
Grades
I can't find an official Baldo website to advertise with a link, but today's comic says a lot about some folks' attitudes toward...
We have been found. Try typing "sursum corda" wightman in Google and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." If you just type "sursum corda"...
Florida's Ballots
As Floridians, we've had to endure too many jokes about Florida's elections. I challenge any state to stand up to the scrutiny Florida...
Mt. St. Helens
Here's a particularly appropriate excerpt from my father's as-yet-unpublished autobiography (to give a fancy name to the project he...
Homeschooling Reports
Today's For Better or For Worse comic strip, though it's talking about an actual school, expresses neatly the technique I used...
Wound Care
While waiting in line at the grocery store today, I picked up a Reader's Digest and read an article about several traditional first...
The Question of God
I don't remember if we have the Olympics or the hurricanes to thank for this, but for one of those occasions we had the television...
Old writings
Don't be surprised if you see posts appearing with long-past dates. I'm gradually collecting some of my old writings into this blog.
Medical Investigation
One consequence of having had to keep a weather eye out for hurricane news is that our television set was on quite a bit recently....
Welcome to my blog!
Thanks to a great deal of help from Jon Daley , I am venturing into the world of the Blog. It sounds rather like something from an old...
Jeanne - 15 days later
Friday, October 1, 2004. 7:30 a.m. Again, I don’t know who gets the credit for this; it appears to be circulating unattributed....
Jeanne - 2nd Tuesday 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004. 1:00 p.m. The power is still on, and we are all happy about that. Porter is currently up on the...
Jeanne - 2nd Monday 9:15 p.m.
9:15 p.m. We didn’t get our swim in. We were just finishing in the front yard when Porter came home. Since we had discovered...
Jeanne - 2nd Monday 4:30 p.m.
Monday, September 27, 2004. 4:30 p.m. I apologize for the long delay between updates. Just after 1:00 yesterday afternoon, as the...
Jeanne - 2nd Sunday 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. Still here, still fine, still have power, wind is anything but still. Impressive gusts, but sustained winds aren’t...