My Own Thoughts

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. — High school students in this well-to-do Westchester suburb pile on four, five, even six Advanced Placement classes to keep up with their friends. They track their grade-point averages to multiple decimal places and have longer résumés than their parents. “I would never put lunch before work,” says Elaine Rigney, a junior [...]

Things that might have been being written in Dielli’s time. Found: The Dustbin of History”

millions are off work. Hundreds of thousands are out shopping. And those who make that possible, who keep that possible, are working and are overseas without a single day off. Memorial Day. For remembering.

One of my students served in this group. His best friend died “over there.” Thank you to those of you who have served. God, please bless the families of those who serve, especially those who have died or been wounded. Give them your comfort, your love, your peace. Please let them know that many appreciate [...]

Thomas was at our home this weekend with his family. He is a mighty prayer warrior. He prayed for E, who is an atheist, and was given this picture, explanation, and point. E is protected inside a giant white web. There are multiple layers to the web and each is strong, not weak like spider [...]

Don Piper was preaching, he of the 90 Minutes in Heaven experience. He said this: When you’re through learning, you’re through. I’ve always felt that too.

For the past 232 years people have fought for the freedoms that you and I often take for granted: freedom of assembly, freedom to worship God in our own way, actually voting, freedom from seizure of our person or property… This weekend is a holiday, a holy day, in memory of those who paid the [...]

From a previous post: March 17- Happy St. Patrick’s day to ya’, darlin’. 176.8 43.9% fat (78 lbs) I need to go get my measurements. 43-34-43 My waist is bigger than my ribs. th 23.5 calf 15 upper arm 13.5 wrist 6.75 neck 14 March 25 170.8 44.9% 42.5-33.5-42.5 th 23 calf 15 upper arm [...]

My son E said that an actuary is the most awesome job ever. It even sounds great. “I’m going to be a bookie for people’s lives.”

School let out. My eight classes are over. But I have a miniterm. And I’ve already agreed to teach five classes in the fall. Two at CC1. Three at 4YS. Yes, that 4YS. The one I didn’t get hired at. May I just say that they pay almost double what the CCs pay per class. [...]

I’ve heard that from my church. I saw it in the grocery store. I’ve seen it on billboards. Let me ask you a question. Wouldn’t you think if a person were hungry, that they would be in poverty? I would think that if you were out of poverty, that you wouldn’t be hungry unless you [...]

I was listening, for just a little bit, to a radio program. It wasn’t NPR, so it was right-leaning. But the host had a guest on who claimed that Republicans care less about the poor because they give more to charity. The fact that Republicans, who are less well-off financially on average than Democrats, he [...]

Today R, quoting NLP, said you are responsible for 100% of what you say and what people hear. Your words and their meaning have to be shaped by you to clearly speak to your audience. First of all, that means that anyone you talk to has to be known and understood intimately, because if not, [...]

which requires me to think a bit. What was I doing ten years ago? 1998… Living in Austin. Had a five year old and a six year old. The six year old was in his first and last year of non-homeschool education with a teacher from Hell, or Boston, who made fun of the children’s [...]

Take this interactive internet quiz and find out your sexual nationality. It is a fun quiz AND it said I’m wild and unpredictable. There is one place where you think you’ve started the quiz and you haven’t really; you have to tell it again you want to take the quiz.

Defenders of the crescent design keep accusing Tom Burnett Sr. of trying to get an improper “do-over” after failing back in 2005 to sway the design-competition jury. But who is really seeking the do-over? The American people rose up in protest in 2005 when they saw that the Memorial Project wanted to plant a bare [...]

Mental Floss offers the origin of superheros and supervillains. Did you know Lex Luthor used to have a full head of red hair? Orson Scott Card rakes JK Rowling over the coals for suing an author for writing something that she herself read, used, and found valuable while she was writing the Harry Potter series. [...]

That was the topic of last week’s lesson and when I wrote letters to God, both this week and six months ago, I could not remember. But tonight, I was reminded of how God was active in my life much earlier than I had been thinking. When I was 13, I read the sermon on [...]