My Own Thoughts

Books for Cooks caught my eye because R likes to cook. But I really love the historicity of it. An excerpt from “Medieval food:” There are over 50 hand-written medieval cookery manuscripts still in existence today. Some are lists of recipes tucked into the back of guides to medical remedies or apothecaries’ instruction manuals. Others [...]

1700 years ago, someone stole a cloak. The owner of the cloak beseeched Maglus to strike him dead. He left the curse tablet behind. Fascinating. Can I use that in Dielli’s book? What if they commission a curse tablet for Anamarbena’s slaver?

One of the things we learned at Front Sight was color awareness. It’s a color code, like the US one for threat levels. I wrote in my notes: In White, the lowest level of threat awareness, you aren’t aware of anything. You are living like there is no threat and never will be. And that [...]

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me, in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and [...]

I am thankful for is R’s working, at a job he doesn’t love, so that I can stay home with our children and homeschool. He gives up a lot of things so that I can do that one thing we’ve decided is best for our family. Thank you, honey.

I made Sharon’s Easy Taco Soup, but I’m not sure how much R had. I had one bowl. It was delicious but very spicy. R didn’t love it because it had beans in it. Did I leave out the beans last time? Plus, there was just too much of it. So, what would I do [...]

I was going to keep a list all year, but I know that won’t really work. I’ll forget or whatever. So here is what I’ve got through Feb. 15. (I forgot to write some books down and I will add those as I figure out which ones they are.) Fiction: Ordinary Heroes: A Novel by [...]

Mirabilis has a link about 7 Yorkshire men who have a rare West African genetic signature. I think that stuff is fascinating. My middle sister when we were much younger said that she wished someone would test our genes and freak my grandmother out. My grandmother was extremely prejudiced. White was best in her opinion. [...]

There’s 156% chance my husband and I will be married on our tenth anniversary. (Btw that was 8 years ago.) In my post a few days ago, I tried to use Political Calculations’ “marriage lasting” formula. It wouldn’t work at all. I thought it was probably because of Safari. So I decided to try it [...]

It’s been forty days since the new year started and I’ve read 20 books. Okay, I’ve read 20 new books. I’ve reread a couple of books as well. But this year I’ve read 20 new books that I haven’t read before. Not including romances. I’ve read about 20 of those too. Maybe that’s why I [...]

Only this one is a mystery and no main characters sleep with anyone. Shoes to Die For by Laura Levine is a mystery. It’s a kitschy LA poor writer who stumbles over dead bodies and does detective work story. It’s a bit campy and a bit funny. There are two kinds of people in LA. [...]

Lucy Crocker 2.0 is a fun, interesting look at a 15 year marriage that has gone down the tubes. Both partners cheat on each other. One because he is bored and unhappy. The other because he did and she is stressed and unhappy. There are some thoughtful insights into marriage and people. There are two [...]

Political Calculations purports to offer a calculation for if your marriage will last. I couldn’t get it to work, although that may be because I put in my mother’s information and the calculator refuses to believe someone could get married at 15. But she did. And she’s been married 46 years to the same guy. [...]

“Sometimes I think secondhand books should be banned, because they’re the bibliophile’s equivalent of cheap crack.” I’m a bibliophile. You can tell by the bookshelves in the house. 14, plus the two new ones I bought yesterday. Do Thy Research had the quote up. But for some reason his blog isn’t showing up. Flowermoonfishing for [...]

“a dogmatic belief system that believes in a ordered universe that can not be, at it’s root, defined by verifiable proofs or adequately understood.” Both of them are given that definition at File It Under in a very good presentation of science’s reliance on religion.

Read about him at Sgt. Hook. This guy, with a red pipe and his own hands, took a suicide bomber out of commission and saved a bunch of soldiers. Thank you.