All
Global Article Categories
- All
Snake Handling, and other Church Practices
I keep writing about our new church while the main post of introduction is still rambling about in my head. But so it goes...
sursumcorda, 7 October 2012 |
Quick Notes
We watched the first half of the PBS documentary Half the Sky last night. ( Quarter the Sky ?) The conclusion is...
Further Adventures in Blood Donation
It's been the required eight weeks since I last gave blood, so I made an appointment to do so. It's pretty convenient now; you can...
Except the Dying
Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings (St. Martin's Press, 1997) I had been looking forward to reading the first of Jennings'...
Bullet Update September 1 – 27, 2012 (teeth, dancing in...
I hope I don’t keep this once-a-month schedule for bullet updates, but better late than never. Sept. 1:...
The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and...
Miracles
Miracles: A Journalist Looks at Modern-Day Experiences of God's Power by Tim Stafford (Bethany House, 2012) Do you...
Just for Fun
Have you seen this ad ? In anything other than very small doses, this technology could get 'way out of hand: can you...
Casting the Net, Vol. 22 - Mathematics Education
My backblog has once again achieved unmanageable proportions, so it's time to bring back—ta da!— Casting the Net , in...
Not Much to Say But "Amen!"
It's not easy to offer a prayer in such a diverse, public setting, but Jena Lee Nardella, founder and executive director of of...
Murdoch Mysteries
Nothing is so likely to lure me to the television set as a good, short mystery. Fortunately or unfortunately, Netflix has a...
Back to School
Stone Soup today is worth highlighting.
Bullet Update August 20 – 31 (Sitting, somersaults,...
Aug 20 th : Joseph learns to do a somersault by himself. Vivienne is getting pretty good at sitting up by herself, though she...
Free Census Search
Ancestry.com is opening all its U.S. census records (1790-1940) for free from now through September 3. The census is one of my...
Not My Kind of Music
Definitely not my kind of music. But check out the guitar solo between 2:63 and 3:12.
My Kind of Music
This afternoon we were part of a Messiah sing-along at Rollins College, sponsored by the Messiah Choral Society . We sang...
Windows 7 Backup Help Wanted
All you Windows 7 users out there, can you help me with backup? Here's the problem: Windows 7 thinks it's smarter than I am,...
Sporcle Goes Swiss
Sporcle , my favorite technique for developing mental "hooks" on which to hang related information, now has a game for the Swiss...
Made to Stick
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Random House, 2007) Can you hear me...
Abortion and Rape: Missing the Main Point
Let me make two things clear up front: I'd personally rather the government and other busybodies stay as much as possible out of...
But What about Fathers?
I may have missed it. After all, I didn't watch much of the Olympics. But what I did see was disturbing, and fits a...
Bullet Update August 9 – 17 (Creeping, Tierpark Goldau,...
Aug 9: Joseph and Janet are writing numbers, as they often do, this time at the chalkboard. Joseph asks Janet to write 112 but she...
In Print Again
Pre-Internet, I wrote to letters to the Orlando Sentinel a lot. That's "to," not "for"; no money came my way, though I was...
Another Decision to be Made
So sad. Our washing machine gave great service for over 10 years, so I guess in terms of today's normal appliance lifespan it...
Newborn Quintuplets
This is happening to a friend of a friend. Really. This is not an urban legend. :) f you don't believe me, you...