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Great Moments in Unintended Consequences
If your day is in need of a laugh, or at least an ironic smile, try some Great Moments in Unintended Consequences . It's lighthearted...
sursumcorda, 29 May 2025 |
Memorial Day 2025
It was a genealogy moment. I was thinking about Memorial Day, and that it would be good to write a post honoring my own ancestors. I...
What's Wrong with This Image?
Here's the follow-up to yesterday's post which featured the hot-button controversy over an image with an embedded swastika. If you...
"I Decline to Take Part in this Struggle Session"
I don't follow Matt Walsh's podcasts, but that's for lack of time, not lack of respect. I find him intelligent and well-spoken, and...
The Simplest Acts
What you do matters . Answer the note. Respond to the email. Return the call. I have no idea why these words from my...
Jordan Peterson and AI
I hope you don't have to be on Facebook to see this very short clip of the challenge Jordan Peterson gave to ChatGPT . I said,...
Fluoride Victory
Florida has become the second state (after Utah) to ban the addition of fluoride to community water systems, for which I am very...
If There's a Health Care Panacea, It May Be Exercise
Note that I'm not preaching to anyone but myself here—and maybe my runner husband who is still a few years short of 75. The...
The Importance of Context
I've been reading through our Constitution recently, a practice I recommend, along with reading the entire Bible on an annual basis. You...
Clearly I Watched Too Much TV as a Child
Here's how to know when television has been too much a part of your life: You read the headline, "1,000 Troops Who Identify as...
Sobering Thoughts on National Defense
Here are some more valuable thoughts from Hillsdale College's Imprimis magazine: New Thinking Needed on National Defense ....
Government Efficiency
Why are people so upset that some government workers are losing their jobs? Why are we not rather rejoicing that vast areas of waste and...
A Beautiful Obituary
As a genealogist, I've read a lot of obituaries, and written a couple myself. I don't think I've ever published one for someone I wasn't...
Why Don't We Want to Be Happy?
It is easy to be heavy, hard to be light. — G. K. Chesterton Despite being six foot four and nearly 300 pounds himself,...
He Said It So Sweetly and Sincerely
Okay, NOW it's funny. At the time I was not laughing. The doorbell rang. Normally, I'm more cautious and look before opening the...
Federal Judge or Beetlejuice?
This picture showed up on my Facebook page. It's from the Babylon Bee, which I often, though not always, find funny. I wouldn't have...
Go Ahead, Defund NPR and PBS -- They Died Years Ago
I remember the days when we were enthusiastic supporters of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. WFLN in...
Et Tu, Ancestry?
Recently I received a notification from Ancestry.com offering me the opportunity to opt out of Mother's Day and/or Father's Day e-mails,...
Hard News Update, Some Good News
Grace's next appointment is May 6. In the meantime, she has started on the new medication, Koselugo , and has been doing really...
Out of Sorrow, Joy
Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Happy Easter, one and all! The following post is from April 2017. I...
Saint Schrödinger's Day
Reprising my favorite Holy Saturday cartoon. Actually, it's the only Holy Saturday cartoon I know, but it makes me smile every...
Good Friday Thoughts: The Loss of a Child
The following is almost entirely a reiteration of a Holy Week post from 2010. Fifteen years more of life experience has only...
Heroes: Bill Maher
Who is Bill Maher, and why does he deserve a place in my Heroes category? No one who knows the deep extent of my ignorance of pop...
Someone Else Noticed the Eggs
It was eye-opening, when we first visited Switzerland, to discover that they don't refrigerate their eggs. Nor do they get sick from...
Hard News
We walk by faith, not by sight. — II Corinthians 5:7 The "faith" part is still strong, but the " sight...