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Happy Cinco de Mayo to all!
sursumcorda, 5 May 2005 |
Cancer Screening
Regular breast self exams, pap smears, mammograms, colonoscopies, prostate exams, full excision and pathological examination of moles...
National Teacher Day
So today is National Teacher Day. (I know because Google told me so.) Since this blog includes rants against the terrible damage...
Who Will Make Medical Decisions for You and Your Family?
If this story doesn't scare you, you need to read it again. (Here's another version .) A 14-year-old Canadian girl has gone into...
Work
Hard, painstaking work is the toll an independent spirit charges itself for self-respect. — John Taylor Gatto
But What about Socialization?
"Socialization"—the homeschooler's "s-word," the final recourse of opponents and skeptical relatives who,...
Epidural Risk
Watching our grandson grow, seeing his parents making choices for his care that I wish we had made with our children, knowing much...
Credit Card Debt, School Loans, and Health Care
Janet needed a chest x-ray as part of a pre-employment physical. Having been advised that insurance would not cover the procedure, she...
Let the Baby Drive
Let the Baby Drive , by Lu Hanessian (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2004) Recently we opened a bottle of wine of far higher...
Who Reads Food Labels?
Better yet, who proofreads them? I was curious to compare the ingredients and nutritional value of the two varieties of soy milk in...
The Cultural Benefits of an NBA Franchise
I don't normally read the sports page, but Porter called my attention to last Friday's Orlando Sentinel , and an outrageous...
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
Squeezing in one final visit before our Disney World passes expired, we went to EPCOT last weekend to see their International Flower...
The Joy of Living
With one friend recovering from a life-threatening illness, and another still in the midst of one, I shouldn't need anything special to...
Mozilla Products
I've been using Mozilla 's Firefox browser for some time now, and have recently added their Thunderbird mail client. Not that I...
Cranberries for Your Health
Studies have already confirmed the traditional wisdom that drinking cranberry juice contributes to a healthy urinary tract . Now...
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...
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...