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I made a discovery last week: I don't fully experience an event until I've had time to process it—ideally, to write about...
sursumcorda, 29 January 2016 |
If You Still Have Your Appendix, You Need to Know This
This news ought to be making major headlines: Surgery is not necessarily the best treatment for appendicitis! Granted, the...
Ellie Reflection: 5-7 Months
November 2015 Ellie grabs her left foot. Puts left foot in mouth. Grabs both feet in both hands. ...
Joseph Reflection: 5 Years and 4-6 Months (66 Months)
Joseph likes to announce how many months old he is, thus I know that this update he is 66 months old. I’ve been...
Daniel Reflection: 2 Years and 4-5 Months
I admire people who can move and not let their whole lives fall apart. I’ll catch up backwards. Here goes! ...
Should a Christian Carry a Gun?
Is it right for a Christian to carry a gun? Or even own one at all? I'm not here to debate pacifism. For centuries, even...
Meaningful Giving
One of my favorite Christmas presents this year was this butter dish. I received many wonderful gifts for Christmas, and point...
Books Read in 2015
2015 turned out to be a good year for reading: I set a new record (since I begain to keep track in 2010): 72 books, on...
Same God, Different God
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same god? Of course they do! Are you nuts? They most certainly do not!...
The Martian (the Book)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Crown, 2014) Our Christmas present from the library: we made the top of the wait list for...
The Danger of Historical Presentism
C. S. Lewis called it chronological snobbery: the idea that present ideas and attitudes are superior to those of the past simply...
A Dickens of a Drink
My grandparents lived in Daytona Beach all their adult lives. Both arrived in 1915; my grandfather was originally from Western...
EVOO
At Thanksgiving, my sister (thank you!) alerted me to the massive fraud going on in the olive oil business . I did a bit of...
95 by 65: Quarterly Update #4 - 2015, the First Year
I've reached the end of the first year of my 2.5-year 95 by 65 project, and I'm thrilled. It has given structure and focus to my...
Chick-fil-A Does It Right Again
It's no secret I love Chick-fil-A . I've never worked there myself, but friends who did in high school found it a good,...
January 1, 2016
Happy New Year, everyone! And Merry Christmas, again, for it is still Christmas until Epiphany on January 6. We're up to...
Onward with the Bible Reading Plans
Having finished YouVersion's Cell Rule of Optina read-through of the New Testament by Thanksgiving, and planning to start a new...
Singing with the Stars
I'm not Englebert Humperdinck. I'm not Michael Bolton. But <ahem> last night I sang with the amazing Ashley (Locheed)...
Randomly Profound
My random quotation generator greeted me with this when I turned the computer on this morning: May no gift be too small to give,...
Merry Christmas from Publix
I did some last-minute grocery shopping this morning, realizing that my normal day for that event (Friday) was out of the question this...
Christmas Cards 2015 - Did We Lose You?
I know it's Advent, and we're still waiting for Christmas. But that's the header for our Christmas newsletter. This...
1066 and All That, and It All Started with Columbus
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman (Barnes and Noble, 1993,...
Walking to New Hampshire
My 95 by 65 Goal #11 was initially a "to be decided later" walking challenge. Yesterday I decided it was about time I set that...
What's Behind the Image?
A friend shared this on Facebook. (Click to enlarge; you'll see later why I want to keep it small.) I'm not criticizing the...
My Radical In-laws
Actually—there really ought to be a word for "daughter's in-laws." That Phil and Barbara were involved in a protest back in the...