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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...
sursumcorda, 29 February 2016 |
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...
Processing
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...
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...