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She Gets My Vote for Good Citizen of the Month
Would you be this cool if you found an eight-foot king cobra under your dryer? Mike Kennedy's cobra escaped a month ago. ...
sursumcorda, 8 October 2015 |
My Three-Week Personal Retreat
This summer I noticed that our grandson was reading a book about "staycations." I think it was about how to have a great vacation...
Calvary Catholic Cemetery, St. Louis
The best part of our visit to St. Louis, Missouri this year was without a doubt time spent with living relatives. Yet we also had...
Rethinking the Parable of the Sower
Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ...
Top Secret from Basel
I try to avoid clickbait—you know, the Internet equivalent of the TV news teaser, "World ends tonight, details at 11"—but...
A Question Concerning Location Data for Photos
Okay, Faithful Readers. I'm listening to an instructional video on using PaintShop Pro, and the instructor interrupts his teaching...
Vivienne Reflection: 3 Years and 8 Months
Vivienne learned to ride a pedal bike! She zips around confidently now. It’s hard to believe she only learned a month...
Malestrom
Malestrom: Manhood Swept Into the Currents of a Changing World by Carolyn Custis James (Zondervan, 2015) Malestrom...
A Frog and Her Prince
I don't change my Facebook profile picture very often. Nor my cover photo, as evidenced by the fact that the current one is...
Ellie Reflection: 3 Months
Ellie is a happy and contented baby. He gives the biggest smiles to her daddy and siblings and I’m starting to worry less...
Beyond Customer Service
I like Bed Bath & Beyond . Their prices can be a little higher than at some places, but there are plenty of opportunities to...
Daniel Reflection: 2 Years and 1 Month
Daniel is a blue-eyed, blond-haired, chubby cutie-pants and he knows it. He rides the walking-bike like a pro and loves...
The Green Ember, and The Black Star of Kingston
The Green Ember by S. D. Smith (Story Warren Books, 2014) The Black Star of Kingston by S. D....
A Royal Visit
The Pope is getting all the publicity, but he isn't the only head of state visting a city of historic importance these days. Last...
Blue Ocean Families
This is my 100th blog post for this year, and I think it fitting to dedicate it to promoting another blog, just five months old but very...
Caught by 1-Click
Ah, I knew there was a reason I didn't want to have Amazon's "1-Click" purchase button turned on. But when buying Kindle books,...
R.E.A.D.
When I saw this poster at our library I did a double take, and had to record it. We have a friend who trains assistance dogs,...
The Upside of Stress
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal (Avery, 2015) For a...
This Is a Post
It's not much of a post, I'll admit. But I'm one short of my goal of writing at least ten posts per month, and this month ends in...
Home Again, Though Not Without Some Interesting Twists
We didn't come nearly as far south as usual on our trip home from Connecticut, because we enjoyed a wonderful visit with my cousin, her...
Challenge = Fun
After spending two weeks with our this-side-of-the-Atlantic grandchildren, I find myself puzzled. I've researched the genealogies...
A Man's A Man For A' That
Frankly, he didn't look like the kind of man I'd bother to speak to at a gas station just off I-95 in Virginia. Grizzled, rather...
Growing So Fast!
The one good thing about living so far from our grandchildren is that their growth between visits is often dramatic, and easier to see...
Eating Just One
First background story: Many years ago, Lay's Potato Chips had an ad that claimed, "Nobody can eat just one." Porter,...
Completing the Next Bible Reading Plan
My 95 by 65 Goal #58 is "Start and keep up with other daily Bible reading plan(s)" (after completing the Chronological Plan on...