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Bullet Update: The End of Life as We Know It (Dec....

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Tomorrow my mother arrives.  When she leaves we will be a family of four (God willing and the creek don’t rise).  Life...

 
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Wawa Is Coming to Town!

So, Orlando finally gets a Wawa !  Nowhere near us yet, but there's hope. I'm still waiting for a Trader Joe's....

 
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The Screwtape Letters - the Show

Several months ago, Porter signed us up for a pre-anniversary present of tickets to the Orlando performance of The Screwtape...

 
harp

Life in Review: Celebrating Two Years of Tickler Success...

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(This is continued from Part I and Part II ) The System (Continued) General File System (see Part II) Tickler (see Part...

 
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Life in Review: Celebrating Two Years of Tickler Success...

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(This post is continued from Part I ) The System On bad days I do very little work in the system, but I almost always make sure I...

 
harp

Life in Review: Celebrating Two Years of Tickler Success...

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The end and beginning of the year are full of celebrations for us: birthdays, anniversaries of weddings and baptisms, and this year,...

 
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A Boy's War

A Boy's War by David Michell (OMF International, 1988) In 2010, revelations of unspeakable abuse of missionary children at...

 
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Saturday Morning Humiliation

Why do Jehovah's Witnesses bring out the worst in me?  They're only doing what they think is best. I'm not good with any form of...

 
harp

7 Quick Thanks Friday – 10 (or Saturday – the...

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Things we are thankful for in some particular order:   Christ’s coming to earth!  Hallejula!  We had...

 
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Can I Really Be Thinking of Getting an E-Reader?

It's not polite to think about items you didn't get for Christmas while we're still in the Christmas season.  But hey—at...

 
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Christmas Fun

(Continued from Pre-Christmas Fun .) You wouldn't think that with just the two of us it would still take all day to open...

 
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The Zen of Fish

The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson (HarperCollins, 2007) Eating sushi is...

 
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Pre-Christmas Fun

This post was going to include Christmas Day, but it turned out to be pretty long, so I've divided it into two parts. Last Sunday...

 
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The First Day of Christmas

Here's one reason why it's more fun to be Episcopalian/Anglican/Catholic/Orthodox or anyone else for whom Christmas lasts a full...

 
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Quick Takes Christmas Eve

— 1 — Don't forget NORAD Tracks Santa !  (I see they have some new videos this year.)  As I write this,...

 
harp

On the Difficulties of Mothering

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There are many thoughts flying about my head, but Joseph’s nap won’t last forever and there are more important things to do,...

 
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7 Quick Thanks Friday – 9 (or Saturday and from...

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Things Joseph is thankful for in no particular order: Snow Mommy Daddy Chances to be outside The ball...

 
harp

Bullet Update (Joseph Nov. 17 - Dec. 23)

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There’s only so much computer time, much less blog time and it looks like 7-thanks have taken over bullet updates. ...

 
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7 Quick Takes Friday - 10

— 1 — This will be my last 7 Quick Takes Friday , at least on a regular basis.  It's been fun...

 
harp

Comments will be Moderated

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Dear Readers, I have been getting so many spam comments that I have decided to turn on comment moderation.  Once you have been...

 
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The Corpse Walker

The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu, translated by Wen Huang (Pantheon, 2008) With...

 
harp

7 Quick Thanks Friday - 8

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Things I’m thankful for in no particular order:   I won’t always and forever have my sleep constantly...

 
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7 Quick Takes Friday - 9

— 1 — This is for my Carngie Mellon MechE grad daughter , who loves gears .  Check out the rest of...

 
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Thinking about Christmas Stress

A Facebook discussion set me to pondering what I have learned through the years about necessary and unnecessary stress at...

 
harp

7 Quick Thanks Friday - 7

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Catholic holidays when living in a Catholic canton and father-son outings (this time to the transport museum)!  Plus...

 
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