Pastor Petersen at Cyberstones had a link to this article. Apparently sauerkraut may help prevent avian flu. We should all be safe tonight. Unfortunately, one member of our...
My two youngest boys are all excited,looking forward to tonight. It's not the release of some long-awaited movie, or a big shopping trip for the new viking Legos. No, they're...
Last week I wrote about an encounter at the dentist's office with one of the "Bush Lied" crowd. Today I found these paragraphs from John McIntyre at RealClearPolitics that are...
Saw this at Living Among the Mysteries and because I can't pass up a quiz or survey-type thingy I had to do it. scroll to bottom to copy the htmlIMDB's Top 100 Best...
The first hymn that I ever learned in its entirety, by memory, was For All the Saints Who From Their Labors Rest. (This is part of the reason singing it from LW bugs me so...
As I was following links from blog to bog, I came across Vicar Charles Lehmann's. I'm sure there's good stuff there of a serious nature, but this is what grabbed my...
I've noticed something happening recently. I'm starting to see life as a writer again. When I was actively writing regularly I would constantly note things that I wanted to...
When I was a kid, favorite days were easy: Christmas, my birthday, anything involving good food. And really, for most of my adult life that has been true, too. But there's...
Today was one of those perfect fall days. It was sunny, warmish, and breezy. The boys played their last soccer games of fall. (Always cause for celebration!) My wonderful...
Pastor S. at Burr in the Burgh posted a link to Time Magazine's list of the 100 greatest English language novels from 1923 to the present. Let's see how many I've read: All...
For those who don't know, my oldest child and only daughter is a freshman in college this year. She is minoring in German and has one of the more fun professors that I have...
One of the limitations that I have discovered is that I can't add html code in the side bars of my journal. The only place that I can add it is in my entries or on my web...
I had an interesting conversation Monday. I was in the lobby at the dentist's office waiting for my son, watching FoxNews with one eye and reading the junk food-equivalent...
I love theology, but you aren't ever going to read much about it that comes directly from my keyboard. I will, however steer you towards good theological thoughts that I find...
From my other blog last week: I try really hard not to think about these things, but every once in a while something really makes me stop and realize that we truly don't...
Gene Edward Veith has an interesting look at the dependence mentality on his Cranach blog, "Where is Our Government." It seems there are some folks out there who think our...
You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy) You're a great thinker and a true philosopher. You'd make a talented...
I think that I have figured out what my problem is. I am a dilettante. I am interested in many things and spend time on many things, but never enough time on one thing to get...
Anyone who was reading my other blog knows how frustrated I was by the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. There is an excellent article in the latest National Review. Here's...
Transplanted from my other blog: Well. this was fun. My daughter did this little game on her blog and said that I had to try it, too. It was amusing. These are the...
I'm hoping that I've finally found the blog that I'm going to keep and use. So far I like the way it's working. I love to write, but I don't have time to figure out anything...