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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)...
sursumcorda, 7 February 2016 |
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...
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)...