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The Road to Character
The Road to Character by David Brooks (Random House, 2015) I read this book on the recommendation of our rector, so I'm...
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Jesus Ist Erstanden!
Easter is in less than three weeks so it's time to bring back my favorite new Easter song from last year. I know it's still...
Hooray for Altamonte Springs!
'Way back in the early 1980's, our little city of Altamonte Springs pioneered a program of reclaiming treated wastewater for irrigation....
From Racial Slurs to Foreign Aid
Toubab . White person. I'm told it's not a racial slur, but have my doubts. It felt like one. It was certainly a verbal assault....
West African Journey - the Adventure Begins
Before the wheels of our first flight had left the ground, at least five people had, separately and individually, encouraged me to...
Disney Delights, Disney Disappointments
Yesterday was the first day of EPCOT's Flower and Garden Festival for 2016, and we were there to celebrate its opening. As...
West African Journey - Preparation, and a Dissertation on...
I've been overseas every year for the past decade, so it ought to be routine by now. But travelling to the Gambia is not like...
Data Loss and Recovery
I know people who are fond of saying, as if it were original with them and somehow encouraging to others, that we should never ask for...
February 29 Memories
Joyce K. is a very good friend of our family, and though she has plenty of grandchildren of her own, she happily played a grandmotherly...
The Fatal Tree
The Fatal Tree by Stephen R. Lawhead (Thomas Nelson, 2014) This is the final book in Lawhead's Bright Empires series, of which...
Do You Dream in Color or in Black and White?
Do you dream in color or in black and white? This question, common in my childhood, must seem nonsense to the next generations, as...
Manjiro: The Man who Discovered America
Manjiro: The Man who Discovered America by Hisakazu Kaneko (Riverside Press, 1956) This book was apparently...
Daniel Reflection: 2 ½ Years!
It’s hard to believe Daniel is only 2 ½. He holds his own playing with his big siblings and is becoming downright...
What Right Does the Pope Have to Question Donald Trump's...
My amusement for this week comes from all the folks who are questioning the right of Pope Francis to suggest that Donald Trump is not...
Language Translation, of a Sort
I'm sorting through the photos from our Gambia trip. During our safari in the Fathala Game Reserve in Senegal, I hastily wrote...
The Billion Dollar Spy
The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday, 2015) This is not a book I would necessarily have picked up myself,...
Never Give Up
More than 40 years after Porter assisted a University of Rochester professor in the search for gravity waves, predicted by Albert...
Girl Scouts, Cookies, and More
I was a Girl Scout in various forms (Brownies on up—no Daisies in those days) for most of my childhood. I've written...
The Story of Western Science
The Story of Western Science: From the writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory by Susan Wise Bauer (W. W. Norton, 2015)...
An Interesting Analysis of the Trump Phenomenon
I know there are Donald Trump supporters out there. I don't have the right to say much about them, as I don't know any of them,...
Vivienne Reflection: 4 Years!
January 21 st Vivienne turned four years and we celebrated with friends and family on the day. Vivienne colored in many horse...
To the Gambia and Beyond!
Many of you know that we recently returned from a two-week trip to the Gambia, that tiny country within Senegal in West...
The Enemy Within
I wrote this in response to someone's Facebook discussion, and put too much time into it not to save it here. The subject was the...
All Good Things...
I had a 325-day streak going on my DuoLingo language lessons. I managed to maintain it through our long plane flight to the...
What It Takes
On January 28, 2016, we were preparing to land at the end of our flight across the Atlantic from Paris to Newark, the penultimate leg...