My Own Thoughts

“I am just the first drop of water in the village,” she says quietly. “I believe it will rain after me.” so says a modern day hero, a speaker of truth, a survivor of horror, an illiterate woman who has dictated her story. Read about In the Name of Honor at Gates of Vienna.

File It Under gives titles to men’s articles by men for women. Example: “A Man’s Guide To Dealing With Your Feelings: Bottle That Crap Up” Go read it. It’s funny. Honey, did it hurt when you shaved with your razor after I used it to shave my legs? And if so, why?

Wise Geek, don’t you love the title?, has a 200 Calorie pictorial essay. I am sad that a bagel is more caloric than a doughnut. Who wants to eat 200 calories of celery? I was surprised at how little cornmeal and flour it took to make 200 calories. Go view it.

1,000 of them were created to help in a war. They were made to be used in slingshots. But the walls came down first. 5500 years ago. I am sure I could use this in Dielli. Surely I could. Read the whole thing here.

Martha’s funeral is today. She’s gone home and is happy and pain free for the first time in years. But she leaves behind a husband and at least one son who think that they will never see her again. I know she’ll be joining the cloud of witnesses and, if we can impact the world [...]

Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber is an expansion, and a significant change, of a story from his moon series. It reminds me of Heirs of Empire. Heirs of Empire story, at least the half related to this: Five folks end up on a planet where there is military hardware in the sky and the [...]

I haven’t read her books, but I may have to. When I looked up Wen Spencer, her name was on the “also purchased.” When I looked up Linnae Sinclair, her name was on the “also purchased.” And when I looked up Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, her name was on the “also purchased.” But looking [...]

Gabriel’s Ghost by Linnae Sinclair was an interesting book. I liked it. It had some minor twists I wasn’t expecting. I liked Accidental Goddess better. But this was a good read. After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime [...]

Accidental Goddess by Linnae Sinclair was a really good book. It has time travel, aliens, first contact rules, romance, pool, deception, sneak attacks, murder, mayhem, and war. Fascinating stuff. I love the main character. She is very believable. Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering [...]

goes on even when I am not paying attention. Martha died on Tuesday and I found out today. It’s 1 am on Thursday. That’s a while. I pray for Melissa and her family. Louis was laid off today. I wasn’t able to talk to Angie. I don’t even think I prayed. I’ll do that now. [...]

Who are we but the memories we keep? That, I think, is why Alzheimer’s fills me with such fear. Who will I be if I can no longer remember me? In my best moments I know that it is much the same question that I asked of God when he was asking me to let [...]

“I wish she could understand how much more you can love a man who is careful to powder the baby or who never hesitates to play with his child. I think she should know that she will fall in love with him again for reasons she would now find very unromantic.” So said an email [...]

It’s not here. It’s cold and raining, but there’s not any ice on the streets. But for a week we’ve been hearing of an arctic cold front that is coming. And we’ve heard of hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. So, in preparation for the big storm, schools here are closed for two days. [...]

Scott Turow’s novel Ordinary Heroes was on my shelf by mistake. I didn’t realize at first it was a novel and I thought it was about the war today. When I opened it and began reading, it was clear it was WWII, but since I have always been a big “fan” (Should anyone call themselves [...]

I mentioned in some post down there what three books I still remember from high school are. (Here I Stand: A Biography of Martin Luther, Nevil Shute’s An Old Captivity, and Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart. ) The ones I remember from college are: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. I taught this one [...]

Last Wednesday I had lunch with Chuck Norris, Neal Bush, and Michael Reagan. And 190 other people. Chuck Norris’ best story, about his Kickstart program here in Houston through which 40,000 kids that are “at risk” have taken martial arts, is this: X was making Ds in sixth grade. He made all Cs in seventh [...]

I made Mexican steak Friday night. My husband said I wasn’t thinking of him because I made the house stink. My eldest son said he would rather smell poop than M.S. My dad came and took some of it home so my sister could eat it. She climbed his eight foot fence to get into [...]

I loved it. I went to a smallish high school, 800 at its peak, and was the new kid in town as a freshman. The school was known for its academic excellence and I enjoyed the work. I had friends in different groups, though not among the jocks. But even the jocks had B averages [...]

Reuter’s has an article about seeking heirs to the British throne. If Aetheling had been old enough to take the throne, his family would have inherited rather than Harold II. And who knows if that would have stopped William of Orange from taking over. One thing I thought was odd about the search is that [...]

A treasure trove of unusual artifacts found in Jamestown could alter perceptions of the Virginia colony’s place in U.S. history, archaeologists announced on Tuesday. Tiny tobacco seeds, a loaded pistol, and an imposing ceremonial spear are among the discoveries excavated since 2005 from a 17th-century well in the colony, which celebrates its 400th anniversary this [...]