My Own Thoughts

Written by my eldest at some time in the last two years. Thank you for my parents, O lord, for they are wise in your ways, and go forth and obey you, O lord. They teach me to do as you wish, to be true, oh true, to your ways, to do as you do, [...]

Dracula by Bram Stoker Raven: a Biography of Sam Houston and other biographies by Marquis James To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I don’t remember it.) Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I don’t remember it.) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain Murder on the Orient Express [...]

Fantasy: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Her Majesty’s Wizard by Christopher Stasheff, and the next three The Dragon series by Gordon Dickson David Weber’s Oath of Swords, etc. The Dragon series by Patricia C. Wrede Mystery: The Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters Amazing Father Brown series by G.K. Chesterton The Victorian and [...]

I wish the internet had been around when I was in school; you can find out so many interesting things. One of the ways I have used the net recently is to find books for my sons to read. I am not the only one. Atypical Homeschool has a 15 year old asking what books [...]

I’ve always thought so. Seems like the more people live in a place, the negative things exponentially grow. Clayton Cramer is talking about the mental health repercussions of living in a city here.

Frank Miller, comic book author, wrote about being a rebel, rebelling against his parents’ WWII beliefs and attitudes and thinking the flag was an old piece of cloth. Then came September 11th. For the first time in my life, I know how it feels to face an existential menace. They want us to die. All [...]

9/11 brings many thoughts. Some of these are of the so-called martyrs who killed the people that day. They expected to be ushered quickly into heaven and given 72 virgins of their own. That’s brought up some interesting ideas. Right on the Left Coast offers us “practical math.” He posits that the only way to [...]

I have read over 700 tributes in the last 48 hours. I cry. My son suggested I drink water so I wouldn’t be totally dehydrated. We lost so much. Debbie’s husband lost her and her skills at organization for his band. Florence brought the Salvation Army band into a restaurant she thought was too staid. [...]

I was going to leave my tribute at the top all through today. Laura Gilly is one of the 2996 who died in the World Trade Center. I am grateful that I was able to remember her today. 9/11 wasn’t the beginning of a war. It was just a loud wake-up call that most of [...]

Laura Gilly, age 32, blonde, technical support at Cantor, was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That’s the most common information available about her on the net. But that is not the sum of Laura Gilly. It isn’t even a very big part. Steven Kretytak of Newsday wrote: Raised in Bensonhurst, [...]

has someone working for it who read my post on the drivers of black trucks and called me a cracker. Wow. Power there. And intelligence. Why would you not even read a blog entry you were commenting on? I don’t care what the color of your skin is. Folks shouldn’t insult people in general. And [...]