My Own Thoughts

Hugh Hewitt has a blog entry on 11/28 &29 that asks what books you have read more than once. I sent a list, but I guess it didn’t fit his criteria. But that post is why I blogged the reviews yesterday.

This last Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent. Advent is a celebration of the four Sundays before Christmas. My church celebrates neither Christmas nor Advent. But I want to. Since I teach a 3rd grade class, I am going to teach next week on David the King, the assigned lesson, and Jesus, son of [...]

(Coming back to this later, I realize the title may be too subtle a joke even for me to get. Oy veh.) This is the fourth book in this world, the third about Miri and Val Con. In it they are safe, temporarily, and go to find her family, a family she has never heard [...]

Then the bad guys, the real bad guys, the guys masquerading as good guys who want to kill everyone different and take over all the worlds, trace Miri and Val Con to this tiny planet. They send an agent to turn Val Con or kill him. Someone gets killed, someone gets hurt, someone gets lost, [...]

This is a great book and I loved it. It is in print again, in an omnibus. I now have two copies, and since it has been out of print for years, you can imagine how hard that was to manage. The main characters are Val Con, an interstellar spy/CIA type, who is a master [...]

This is an attempt to respond to Reactuate’s post about Faith. Which was somewhat a response to Mrs. DuToit’s post about atheism. My husband is going through a period of spiritual reawakening. This means that his beliefs are being taken out and spring cleaned. It is an interesting position to be in. I am grateful [...]

Well, that’s what he called it. My husband thought I should tell who I am. But what do I care if I tell who I am? No one but my husband reads this since I moved it, and he knows who I am. So, in case you care, I am Reactuate’s wife.

My husband says that the boys and I are addicted to the web. While I am willing to admit that for the boys, I stand my ground and shout NO to the accusation when it is placed against me. However, it might be true. It’s where I get my news and see what is going [...]

Something to do with all those books I’m piling up because I can’t resist buying them, but then it turns out I have multiple copies. Strengthen the Good (as in, don’t just fight evil but also…) is a website to promote positive micro-charities. The most recent one is asking for books in English for a [...]

This article from a prof at Univ of Georgia gives evolution a B and a D based on Steven Hawking’s criteria for what makes a good theory. I liked it. Got there via Michael Williams-Master of None.

The posts written on vacation were actually written into letters. I just pulled them out for my site because I wanted to remember them. Here they are in one place and I don’t have to search to remember what was going on on our vacation. The letters are/were/will be sent to armed forces personnel serving [...]

Written 11/20/04 As I begin to write this, I am sitting at an Exxon station in La Grange, Texas. My family and I are on our second vacation which doesn�t consist entirely of visiting family. We borrowed my folks RV and we are going to Austin, where we used to live, to visit friends. My [...]

Written 11/25/04 We come here for days and spend about four hours with my grandparents-in-law. They’re great people in their late 80s. Pappa Wiley will be 88 in February. He’s a reader. He also likes to get on forums and email folks who are interested in a certain kind of Christianity. Of course, like most [...]

Written 11/24/04 My in-laws live in Arkansas, the Northwest corner, up by Fayetteville. That’s where we are this Thanksgiving holiday. My in-laws grew up in Springdale, which is where the grandparents-in-law still live. Well, my father-in-law’s parents are still here. My mother-in-law’s parents are both dead now, but she was the baby in her family. [...]

Written 11/22/04 I am here in the hill country of Texas visiting friends and having a family vacation. It has been raining the whole time we have been here. But this morning it is not just raining. The streets are flooding and there is a tornado watch. Since we’re in an RV, the lightest kind [...]

Written 11/19/04 Tonight I went to WalMart to get some stuff and I noticed that the three cars between me and the door all had “support the troops” ribbons on them. I read a blog where a commenter said, Why do they put those on their cars? It isn”t supporting the troops. He’s right. The [...]

Written 11/20/04 I enjoy reading. My favorite kinds of books are sci fi and fantasy. I have several authors who I read all or most of what they put out, even if it’s not in a genre I typically read in. My favorite authors are Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, Sharon Miller and Steve Lee, and [...]

Written 11/22/04 I’ve been reading a book by Robert Fulghum. He’s the guy who wrote the books Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was On Fire When I Laid Down On It. I think this book is called Uh-Oh. I like that title. His work is very much stream of [...]

They have discovered what made Pompeii’s red so much more red than any other reds. YEAH. This article discusses the fact that cinnabar, mercury sulfide, is the red that most reds came from. Then it looks at the fact that the non-fading red is actually two sizes of cinnabar mixed together. (I got there via [...]

I am the coordinator for the homeschoolers in my area in our attempt to help out the soldiers. We are collecting things to package up and send to Iraq and Afghanistan. So far we have sent 10 boxes to one unit of 52 people. We have also sent Christmas cards for each member of the [...]