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Trader Joe's, Getting Closer
Thanks to my sister, I have three Trader Joe's reusable grocery bags that would just love to be used at an actual Trader Joe's. ...
sursumcorda, 10 March 2012 |
The New Folk Song Army
We are the Folk Song Army Everyone of us cares. We all hate poverty, war and injustice , Unlike the rest of you squares. (Tom...
My New Exercise Program
Tired of waiting for Netflix to offer anything beyond the second season of the Duggar family's TV show (they're now on Season Six), I...
We have Mobility!
There are so many things to write I have no idea how to write them all but better write something than nothing at all. We...
Mainstream Tabloidism?
The following headlines were presented as the top three on my Orlando Sentinel news feed this morning: Transgender woman denied...
Teenagers!
I realized yesterday that—until September, anyway—all of our nephews are now teenagers. And what a fine bunch of young...
Lenten Practices Survey - the Results
Here are the results of my trial of SurveyMonkey , which, by the way, I think is pretty cool and hope to find more uses for. I...
DishWASHER!
For six weeks in Switzerland I was the official dishwasher, and enjoyed it. In my appliance hierarchy, a dishwasher ranks below a...
Ashley Locheed, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Here she is, the incredible Ashley Locheed ! On the right is some dude named Englebert Humperdinck . (Not the composer of...
Bullet Update (Joseph grows, Vivienne rolls over)
I’ve been bad about computer time and have even failed to take notes for a bullet update. The only thing I have is from...
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg (Zondervan, 2003) This book started off with two strikes...
Words, Games, Family
Today's Stone Soup : Less on the Scrabble side, more on the Boggle side—when you have meals to fix and children to...
Trying Out SurveyMonkey
This survey has no purpose, other than to let me try out SurveyMonkey . There's supposed to be an embedded survey below....
Why Are We So Slow on the Uptake?
Which is worse, losing your technical edge, or losing your technical edge and pretending you didn't ? When I was young, "Made in...
Ready for Kindergarten
From this distance, I find it difficult to remember what our children did when. But today I delved back into past diaries, looking...
Good News on the Education Front for Academically...
I can't be griping all the time. Here's some great news for homeschoolers—and others who don't fit in the standard school...
One handed post
I’m writing this while one hand is holding my 3-week-old Vivienne. She’s nursing and she’s wearing a long...
For Kathy, the Giver
After six nephews, four grandsons, and 29 years, we once again have two little girls who fit these adorable outfits. Picture...
Brave Companions
Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 1992) I need to remember to read...
Life with Joseph (and Vivienne) - 12 - Brrrrr-n!
On Monday, Vivienne received the blessing of the Swiss government; today we travelled to the American Embassy in Bern for a simlar...
Life with Joseph (and Vivienne) - 11 - Money and Shopping
I'll never convince a credit-card wielding American, but shopping with cash in a country like Switzerland is great! I'll admit...
Life with Joseph (and Vivienne) - 10 - Mmm, Milk!
There's some debate just what Emmen is. Stephan says it's a suburb of Luzern, and I suppose it is, Luzern being a 15-minute bus...
Life with Joseph (and Vivienne) - 9 - Snow & Planes
Lately it's looked a lot more like picture-perfect Switzerland, thanks to the snow and cold. Except that it could be...
Mona Lisa News
Still famous after all these years. Check out the news about the light a copy sheds on da Vinci's masterpiece. (Just a...
Susan G. Komen: Wimps
Way to make everyone mad, Susan G. Koman folks. Either make a decision, or don't. If you're thinking about an action as...