My Own Thoughts

Yesterday the boys and I were out to lunch. We were talking about the Bible, about faith, about worldviews, and other things. As she was leaving, the lady at the table next to us paused. She looked right at me and said, “Do you teach?” I said yes. “Good. I was going to say you [...]

the saying says, “Make lemonade.” But how easy is that? We spent weeks getting people interviewed. Several people went away because they weren’t qualified or lied on their resume or had some other problem. One went away because half the group did not like him best. (Looking back I am not sure that was a [...]

Half and half on the committee was enough to trounce a candidate. We have 10 teens for and 4 teens against. Is that enough to throw out a candidate? My son says that if the youth minister gives the parents information about their children, he’s not trustworthy. I am wondering if he would come, even [...]

because my life has been crazy busy and I’m too exhausted to say anything. Summer school with 24 students and research papers. Search committee for a youth minister at my church. Getting ready for a party at my house, which took a week of cleaning and mowing to prepare for. But I’m alive and getting [...]

I forgot to write them down for a month. So some of the ones I read are missing. As I find them or remember, I will add them on. To date I have read 161 that I am sure of. That’s not even one a day. Fiction: Ordinary Heroes: A Novel by Scott Turow Irish [...]

We got the call on Tuesday that Wednesday Pappa was coming home with hospice. They aren’t going to try to make him better anymore. They found liver cancer. Pappa is hard of hearing, but has been in great shape… until the last few years. He got prostate cancer and has had to deal with that [...]

This is the recipe from R’s “big grandma” for her coconut cookies. They are Pappa’s favorites. 2 1/4 c. all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 c (2 sticks) butter, room temperature 1 c sugar 1 c packed brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 large eggs 1 entire package of [...]

I got on ichat with my hubby and left a string of comments, after he’d said hi back, that went like this: Okay. I thought I would get on and read my blogs. Haven’t done that in a few days. Haven’t had time. Another of the bloggers I read had a spouse walk out on [...]

Last night I did dream, no nightmares, but I woke up every hour at least, sometimes every fifteen minutes. I thought I was going to throw up from overheating, even though I was outside the covers and our room is seventy degrees. I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s uncomfortable.

because I was trying to dial out and Sprint/Embarq gave me six “not available” responses. Often we’ll have to redial three times, but I’ve never had six before.

I had nightmares this morning. I was shopping for things in a giant Goodwill garage sale, lots of excellent pieces of furniture. I lost my shoes in a snowbank with a pillow that became a puddle but didn’t realize it for a long time. Then I started looking for my shoes. It was hard because [...]

I said I’ve been avoiding nightshades for 72 hours. The pain is still there, so I went out on the net looking for info. I found this mayonnaise, fried foods that may have been cooked in oil where potatoes have been fried, and modified vegetable starch (which might be in bread, gravy, or sauces). in [...]

Ariel wore the beautiful, long trailing wedding dress I bought this week into the brown, sandy, fishy lake. I hope the pictures turn out well. The dress smells like a morning fog out of Corpus Christi.

I couldn’t find Malathion at Lowe’s, so I bought something which had bifenthrin in it. I looked up malathion to find out what it looked like. Then I thought I would look up bifenthrin to find out if it really does kill fleas. It hasn’t done a great job in our yard, but maybe I [...]

is now the title of the class I’m teaching for homeschool coop. We’re going to do: Olympics hot air balloons Around the World in however many days motor car races airplanes space race-including inventions I’m not sure if that’s all we’ll do, but that will be fun, I think.

I think the answer might be yes. I am teaching two classes at my community college. I may be teaching another two classes at another community college. I am teaching two classes on Fridays for homeschool kids. I’ve agreed to teach the little kids at church one Sunday a month. E and I are going [...]

This is a history of inventions and races. I don’t know why I decided to call it that. I was thinking about the first great automobile race, which I bought a book for. I hope I still have the book. I said it would be “a history class on inventions with games and races as [...]

I was planning to go to Dallas the 23 through the 25th to see my friends. But it turns out I agreed to start teaching a class on August 24th. I can’t move it up because my friend’s daughter is leaving the country. But maybe I could visit Jess on the 22nd and go to [...]

Sci fi writers have no sense of scale in several dimensions Distance Probably the most spectacular example is in the first segment of the Doctor Who story “The Trial of a Timelord”, where Earth was apparently hidden by moving its entire solar system several million miles, which is the celestial equivalent of hiding from your [...]

can best be seen in these fun/funny sites. For Shakespearean insults, go here. An example is “What, you egg! Young fry of treachery!” from Macbeth. Or you could look at the 10 Strangest College Mascots. The info includes whose they are, when or why they were chosen, and what the author thinks of them. I’m [...]