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Presidential Qualities
Enthusiasm, fortitude, patience, and joy are good qualities in a president. I wouldn't wish that job on one of my grandchildren any...
sursumcorda, 27 March 2025 |
Prayers for Surgery Tomorrow (Thursday, 3-27)
From Daley Ponderings : Grace is having ear surgery tomorrow to explore what's going on, get a biopsy, and maybe get a tube...
23andMe Update
This post has been sitting around for a while, waiting for an opportune time to be published. Given the recent news about 23andMe's...
Judgement Day
Was it a dream or a nightmare? Both, I think. It was frightening, but it also ended before I wanted it to. Elon Musk had come to...
Saint Augustine by Air!
This week, we combined a number of objectives into one visit to Florida's St. Augustine: Showing Noah the sights of America's oldest...
An ENT, a Radiologist, and an Oncologist Walk into a Bar
Jon began his latest update on Grace this way: An ENT, a radiologist and an oncologist walk into a bar.... Oh, maybe not, but they...
The Astronauts, the Judges, and the Bee
Sometimes the Babylon Bee—like much modern satire—is too heavy-handed for my taste. And other times it is spot on . This...
Very Quick Grace Update
Grace has a bone marrow test at Dartmouth today , where they check to make sure it's all good cells with no lingering defective ones....
2025 3:16
Sandwiched between 3:14 (Pi Day) and 3:17 (St. Patrick's Day) is 3:16 (Greatest Love Day) John 3:16, that is. For God so...
Rescue Mission
I created this back in November, before denigrating the world's richest man became almost as popular a pasttime as abusing...
When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie
Sometimes I don't mind showing my age: When contemplating a post appropriate for both the day of the lunar eclipse and Pi Day, this is...
Not So Drastic Changes
You may have noticed that I have often been leaving open the option to comment on my posts, despite what I said in " More Blog Changes...
Me Fly with Noah, Too
Back in December, I wrote about the time Noah took his little sister flying . Today was our turn. We flew to Ocala and...
Lenten Meditation 2025
We are now in the season of the church year called Lent. A season of self-denial and repentance, it is paradoxically one of my...
A Good Man
An excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's novel, Warbreaker (pp. 490-491 in the hardcover version). It seems fitting for my Heroes series ....
New Prayer Need
Here's an update on Grace's situation after the meeting with all the doctors, to clarify everything about the neurofibroma in her ear ,...
Eggs
I have observed something interesting about buying eggs these days. The painful increase in the price of eggs is directly driven by...
More Blog Changes
It's time for a re-evaluation of Lift Up Your Hearts! —and some changes. I've been ruminating on this for a long time....
Gun Control Out of Control, an AI Story
As you know, I've been playing with using Microsoft Copilot to create images; I was quite happy with my Bonnie Warrior experience. I...
Taking the DOGE Challenge
What would you do if you received this e-mail from your employer? What would you think if refusal to comply were grounds for...
Lux Beata Trinitas
I rarely post the music that our choir sings in church, because our sound system, which works well enough for sermons, is absolutely...
Not Your Father's Frog in the Kettle Story
The Cost of College, Then and Now
That's the bill for my first semester of college, in 1970. In 2024 dollars, that would be just under $16,000. (Inflation...
Making Yogurt
I have been making homemade yogurt off and on, using a couple of different yogurt makers, for five decades. Mostly off, because good...
When the News Gets Personal
Whatever you think about Facebook, there's no doubt it can be unintentionally amusing I mostly find its "Reels" feature to be...