My Own Thoughts

There is a girl in Russia who has just moved there this year. Her parents are going to be missionaries. Her birthday is next month. So we’re sending a package. I couldn’t find any good stickers for the kids to make their own cards with. But WalMart had $.48 cards. And I managed to find [...]

Christopher D. Sessums wrote an article, “A blog is more than a communication tool”, which I found very interesting. “People blog for a variety of reasons,” he said. And then he gave some reasons for bloggers he knows. None of them seemed to fit, exactly, the reason I love my blog, though outboard brain is [...]

Or Homer lives. Or, YEAH! They found King Ajax’s house! 8,000 square feet with thirty rooms. Four stories tall. It’s not too far in time from my book. It makes a lot of what I wrote make a lot more sense. (Ha. History books are helpful, you know.) ARCHAEOLOGISTS claim to have unearthed the remains [...]

Or maybe he should have called it the revenge of history. When we slough off something and then it comes back and shoots us in the foot, isn’t that revenge? Anyway, there is an excellent article at American Digest. When I began to read I thought, “It’s not September…” But the article is incredible. Read [...]

I wrote that last entry about not sending E to college full-time when he is 16, even though I went to college then and had a great experience. Are you wondering why I don’t want to send E? I thought you might be. Here are some of my answers. Truthful answers. You don’t have to [...]

I have been thinking about this today because my eldest is 14. And he is finishing up 11th grade. Next year I do not have any math options available for him. He has outstripped me and the home school group in our area does not appear to be offering a senior math. But math is [...]

I am working on a list of restaurants and restaurant foods that I can eat without eating nightshades. Skeeter’s- chicken strips, but no dipping sauce Italian restaurant- Fettucini Alfredo with chicken Zio’s, a chain Italian restaurant- Chicken and Cheese Tortellini Alfredo Chili’s- breaded chicken on Caesar salad, Note: You can’t get the grilled chicken. It [...]

Maybe. 500 engravings have been found. “The place where the tablets were found, not far from the surface, leads one to suppose they contain information from a library,” he said . “There could be thousands of them down there” .

Today is one week of going without the foods I am allergic to. No ketchup, mustard, tomatoes, french fries. No pizza, spaghetti, hot dogs with chili. No tacos, burritos, taco salads. No mashed potatoes, baked potatoes. No barbeque, neither cow nor pig. No small tomatoes to pop in my mouth. No spicy foods from Chinese [...]

Well, if you have a blog with moderated comments, you should not take three days off from the internet. I came home to 1123 spam comments and they slowed my computer down to nothing. Thankfully after 40 minutes of not working my son suggested I email R. R fixed it in less than a minute. [...]

I am on my second day of trying to totally, one hundred percent, avoid my allergy foods. I know that I have severe allergies to them and that it brings down my quality of living. But I haven’t gotten off them for more than a day or two in about ten years. To make a [...]

The three Christian Peace activists who are still alive after their capture by Iraqi terrorists, the American fourth was murdered and his body dumped, have been rescued by a military operation. The press release only says the men have been “released.” Not that they were rescued. And then they blamed the people who rescued them [...]

has experts worried. I wonder if the reason there are more children being born between 34 and 36 weeks is because more children are making it that far.

I wrote someone last week about his daughter who died in 1993. I’ve never met the man and hadn’t ever spoken to him until today. But I loved his daughter and she died. I wanted to let him know that someone, besides her folks, still thinks of her and misses her. So I’ve been looking [...]

Short short skirts are popular in Atlanta. Dressing up for a model call can range from jeans to a fancy party dress with knock ‘em dead high heels. (I thought the more dressed up folks looked a lot nicer.) If there are 200 people at a party, you won’t see everyone- maybe not even people [...]

The guys running the whole thing said to come down and go in the middle room. (Not that we knew where that was. But we went down and hung around.) Eventually we figured it out. We went in a smaller room, smaller even than the sky bar, and watched the show’s cut version for an [...]

When we arrived the first time, they let us go up to the sky bar, the VIP area to get warm. But when we arrived the second time in the limo, they didn’t. There were easily a hundred people, maybe more, in a crowd waiting for one guy to check their ID, their names, and [...]

I received a non-spam comment on my last post on Terri Schiavo. I don’t agree with the comment, but I see that the person who wrote it is articulate and has thought about the situation a lot. While I disagree with the author pretty much completely, the comment was interesting. Because lots of people don’t [...]

A student researcher found that many names that we now think of as quintessentially Irish are Catholic, English, and/or Norman. Brian is about the only one I thought of that is Irish. Brighid… One of my books, maybe two, will be on Celts many moons ago. Need to remember this and not give them the [...]

The Senate is talking about/working on a bill that will allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country. It also establishes a guest worker program. Hey, if 12 million of us commit some crime, maybe the Senate will excuse us. Murder? Theft? If something is wrong, it is wrong no matter how many people are [...]