My Own Thoughts

This website talks about ancient face cream, from 200 AD, found in London. Made with tin oxide, animal fat, and root and grain starch pulled out in boiling water.

Blackfive has a post about the Houston Marine Moms sending care packages. I think this is cool, because my church helped collect money to get them mailed out and then we sent about 25 more ourselves. But the best thing about this article is that the accidental sending of a female package to a male [...]

It’s here. Fox has a column on Good News for the year. I was surprised by how much stuff there actually was. Less dropouts. Lower teen pregnancy. Less teen violence. For an encouraging word, go read it. I found it via Instapundit.

Good friends drove home from Tennessee to see us. We were a good six hours in the wrong direction from where they were going next, but they decided to come see us while we were in North Carolina. That was great. I enjoyed seeing them. And I adored their new baby girl from China. Then [...]

I’m going to bed, but I wanted to post and say Merry Christmas to anyone who reads this regularly. Night night. God bless you.

Forget pajamas. I’m going to blog half nude. Well, okay, my icon is half nude. Aside from the red hair and pale skin I don’t much look like that. Do you like the new blog look? I think it is ultra-feminine. My husband created it for an anniversary present. 16+ years. Happy anniversary to us.

Was reading Shelley at Blog Explosion and she had a list from the BBC about 50 things you should eat before you die. Note that the Brits are having trouble counting, as there are only 48 things on the list. Though I have had fish, the only kind of seafood I enjoy is canned tuna. [...]

Coming to Brazil found on Blog Explosion, had an excellent comment/commentary on the backlash of Mery Christmas. And Merry Christmas to them, too.

How Much Information discusses both the production and the use of information. The most interesting things to me were book and internet use. But I will mention some others. First, the average US household in 1992 spent 100 hours per year reading books. If the average household consists of four people, that means that the [...]

I haven’t wanted to write anything specifically, but one of the units I have been sending things to is in Mosul. I pray for them, specifically today, as many died and were injured. Is it awful to say that I hope they weren’t “my” soldiers? The war dead list has not yet been updated, so [...]

I’ve gotten three e-mails in the last ten days from the folks I sent things to via the anysoldier.com website. I got a letter from an Army captain to whom I have sent only letters. He had asked for letters and I knew I could send those. I did too. Over forty in the last [...]

Cronaca writes about a German find of a flute made from a Wooly Mammoth’s tusk. They date the piece to 35,000 BC, which I doubt, but it gives credence to stories of humans hunting the mammoths.

Interesting post from Clayton Cramer on the flood and some astronomical disasters placed at about 2300 BC.

I have to put checks in bank, drop off give aways, get groceries for boy lunches, and go out to eat. Plus do the laundry and pack for our four or eight day excursion to NC. That packing includes wrapping presents. Since I woke E at 10 to get him to sign his checks, I’m [...]

Chief Wiggles

A chaplain from Mosul blogged yesterday’s disaster. I’d say you need a box of Kleenex before you read Training for Eternity. It tells of his experience in the hospital with the wounded and dying and the mortar fire the enemy aimed at them there.

I found a blog on Blog Explosion that I was very interested in reading. My guess is that the blogger is at my alma mater, where I still have lots of connections. And she has pictures of Abilene on her site. But I don’t know if she’s a student at my alma mater because her [...]

I often write on this blog, rather than do other things. I read something somewhere that I want to comment on and I do it here. But recently, for the last six weeks, I’ve been writing to Soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of the posting I would do here normally has been [...]

According to the New York Times, the ACLU has violated its own standards in order to create a data base of info on its members and supporters. Read about it at Volokh, among other places.

We ordered the movie Voices of Iraq from Netflix and I watched it. There was some negative stuff in there, but I think it was a good view of Iraq by Iraqis. Sweet kids. Businessmen. Police. Mothers. Dentists. Read the brief. Watch the movie.