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Nothing to Cheer About
When Terri Schiavo dies, there's going to be cheering, and I don't understand why. I know there will be cries of exultation because of...
sursumcorda, 30 March 2005 |
Too Clean to Be Healthy?
Once again, Florida is making national headlines , this time because of the mysterious outbreak of serious kidney disease, hemolytic...
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday is the most wonderful day of the year! Acknowledgement of this in the "everyday world," however, is so rare that it lifts...
Practical Christmas Presents, Useful Lenten Discipline
This Christmas, Heather and Jon gave me a collection of contemporary "praise and worship" CD's. This was a welcome gift, not because I...
A Typical Church Service?
As part of our constant dialogue on worship and music styles, Jon send me this SheepComics link . I was actually more intrigued by the...
One Reason for Living in Florida
Recently we decided it was time to pick the remainder of the grapefruit from our tree, and yesterday I made several batches of juice,...
Small World
I borrowed a cookbook from the library: the Beat That! Cookbook by Ann Hodgeman (Chapters Publishing, Ltd., Vermont, 1995). This is...
Frazz
A friend sent me the following Frazz comic and I was immediately hooked. The setting is an elementary school, and the main characters...
Worm Condos
On Saturday we went to the Central Florida Fair , old-fashioned fun with rides, a midway, cotton candy, and hundreds of exhibits. I...
Li'l Writer Guy
Recently I discovered Li’l Writer Guy living in my head. That sentence is enough to make half the readers of this blog think...
Pregnancy Piercings
So, I know I don't have time to spend posting to the blog, but over lunch I read quite a strange article in today's paper. Here is a...
Teach Your Children Well—Teach Them ASL!
American Sign Language to the rescue! In New York, a choking woman dialed 911, but was unable to speak. Her three year old daugher, whom...
Terri Schiavo, Ethics, and Family Rights
The whole world is now following what once was just a Florida story: the tragedy of Terri Schiavo , the woman who collapsed 15 years...
In the Presence of My Enemies
In the Presence of My Enemies , by Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill (Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois, 2003) In May of 2001,...
Too Much of a Good Thing
It's not news that tea ( Camellia sinensis ) can be good for our health , offering benefits related to heart disease, cancer, stroke,...
The Virus and the Vaccine
The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans...
Periodic Table of the Elements
When you walk into Heather and Jon's house, you can't miss the Periodic Table that takes up most of one wall. It was an extraordinary...
Misleading Headlines
Government got it wrong on advice to pregnant women Folic acid advice has had little impact on birth defects Recommendations...
Boston Wins Two Out of Three!
Having made so much of the Red Sox for their World Series win, I must also congratulate the Patriots for their Super Bowl performance....
The 8th Habit
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness , by Stephen R. Covey (Free Press, 2004) Strictly speaking, this is not a review of...
The Virus Within
The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic , by Nicholas Regush (Dutton, 2000) I know that my brother had roseola when he was 14 months old,...
Courtesy, Common Sense, and Classroom Flags
The Orlando Sentinel recently published a letter by a local community college professor expressing his disgust over a new Florida law...
School Is No Place to Read
My friend knew she would get a reaction from me when she sent a page from the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin . She might not have...
Winter Storm Warning
It seems ludicrous, with the thermometer reading a very pleasant 72 degrees, and the rest of our family enduring subzero temperatures and...
Dorm Brothel
That's the intriquing title of an article by Vigen Guroian, a professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, who warns that unsuspecting...