My Own Thoughts

Need to take someone dinner, but don’t know when they’ll eat? Here’s a recipe for taco soup that tastes wonderful. Can of ranch style beans (with any additives you want) Can of cream of mushroom soup Can of cream of chicken soup Can of corn Can of chicken Can of rotel tomatoes 2 cans of [...]

My church’s email posted that I was dealing with the complications of my hysterectomy. (They hadn’t known originally that there were complications. R had just said the surgery was “more extensive than we had expected but it went well.”) That was Tuesday. And I started feeling better again. (Should have known why!) Wednesday evening I [...]

Big Lizards has a good post on the Supreme Court’s decision and on the Geneva Convention. I don’t think we can withdraw from the GC. I’m not even sure we should, but I think the post is well-written and interesting.

I read Language Log all the time. Sometimes I don’t understand it. (Yes, I took lingustics. No, I’m not a linguist.) But this is what I liked best about the above-referenced post: ” those little changes that wear languages thin and loosen things and make things drop off our language like buttons off an old [...]

The elm at the White House, the one on the back of the $20 bill, has fallen and been sent to the chipper. I thought all the elms in the US were gone. I know the gorgeous 100+ year old elm in front of my grandparents’ place, what is now my cousin’s land, has been [...]

I love reading the Anchoress. And when someone recently asked me for great reads on line, her blog was one I recommended highly. Today, though, I think she’s wrong. Here is the interesting question…when a life has been lived with a sense of deep mission – as in either Hamlet’s or Harry’s case – and [...]

I didn’t know the man, but I LOVE his work. All his work. At Ace, at Tor, at Baen. And I am sad that the world has lost him. David Drake has his obituary. Baen asked for it the day before he died. Still a visionary. My brother called with the news. It is a [...]

Dr. Sanity has a post on Good versus Evil, happy endings versus depressing ones, and Harry Potter’s possible demise.

This incredible video is brought to you via Joanne Jacobs. But you have to watch it. It’s the 4th of July for Diet Coke and Mentos. I promise. Video.

And who the heck cares, since that’s not their job? There is a great article at Jewish World View. Some of the great quotes: Gilbert writes that psychologists have found that people are less happy when they are interacting with their children than when they are doing a variety of other activities, like eating or [...]

Archaeologists opening up tomb 63 in the valley of the kings expected to find a mummy. Instead they found woven flowers and embalming materials. Note: Woven flowers from the time when Dielli’s story takes place. Use this someplace.

Spunky Home School asks what is your biggest challenge in homeschooling and how did you overcome it. The comments make interesting reading. I actually commented on three different challenges, based on where we were in the process, and how I got through them or overcame them or just made them not be a handicap anymore. [...]

My oldest son is finally registered for college. We went on Monday for an appointment, but our counselor wasn’t in. (Emergency kept her out for an hour.) We finally gave up and went to someone else. But she insisted that I turn in his transcript before he was admitted. So that didn’t work. I hadn’t [...]

and strip off my clothes outside. I went to lunch with my folks and was going out to feed the ants I’d seen on the way back in. But what I didn’t know was that what I saw was only the beginning. I was actually standing in an ant bed while dropping the poison. I [...]

I prefer the US laws to the UN’s laws. And it seems that the UN is trying to undermine our 2nd amendment. Read about it at Michelle Malkin’s.

This fall I will be sitting at the college waiting for my 15 year old son to have his classes. It means I won’t be teaching on Fridays for the homeschool coop. I am so sad. I was going to be teaching an autobiography class. I was looking forward to it. And Joanne Jacobs has [...]

I wanted to say kidney doning, but I don’t think that’s a word. And I didn’t want “giving,” so I went with donor. Dynamist Blog has an interesting response to the National Kidney Foundation. (I hadn’t heard that the NKF had said this.) I agree with Dynamist, btw. Kidney doning has been on my mind [...]

National Geographic says that ancient seal remains reveal a warmer Antarctica. The discovery, scientists say, is the first hard evidence for a warming period in the region between 2,300 and 1,100 years ago. An earlier warming period, between 6,000 and 4,000 years ago, has been recognized by other researchers and is believed to have been [...]

Dr. Charles talks about the study that was all over the blogs yesterday, about having more brothers increasing the chance of a guy being gay. Numbers included for those of who want to know what that really means. (5% as opposed to the “average” 3%.)

My youngest, who likes music, says that in Country-Western music, the guys are always singing of having been left by the women, but that in rock and roll, the women are always singing of being left by the men. I guess you should be country, if you’re female. And be rock, if you’re male? Would [...]