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Another Reason Not to Blog

“What might be delicate or unseemly in normal life, however, is daily meat for the butt-wiggling exhibitionists on the Internet; otherwise there would be no blogs...

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Reading, Quotes, Writing

Committee of Morons

“The Town hall, which looked as if it had been designed by a committee of morons in an excess of alcohol and civic pride, stood in isolated spendour bounded by tw...

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Quotes, Writing, Words

Books Completed in 2011

Here is the list for 2011. My goal is a minimum of 12 books completed per year, or an average of one per month. If I start a book in one year, and finish it in th...

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Lists, Books

The Art of Play

Jennifer Trafton is an author of children’s fiction. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, was read aloud by yours truly across many evenings with the Ab...

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The Least Likely Things...

Alan Jacobs at More Than 95 Theses...The least likely things in the world are Bach’s B Minor Mass and the Iliad. There are no plausible ways to account for that h...

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Art, Writing

This Morning's Encouragement

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things presen...

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Affections, Bible, Hope

Classical Education

The youngest four of the Abell Six are home schooled. We have attempted to teach them using what is commonly called “Classical Education.” Starting in 7th grade, ...

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Education, School, Vocation

Go and Read: The Dragon's Tooth

Five of the Abell six have now completed N. D. Wilson’s latest fictional creation, The Dragon’s Tooth. Unanimous consensus is that this book is simply fantas...

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Story, Fiction

Considering I’m an Administrator...

The whole post by Douglas Wilson is about Missions, but the first two paragraphs seemed appropriate to my job description. Too much truth here...Inside each capab...

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Administration

Toes

toes, originally uploaded by wenabell.Wendy is fantastic. Can you guess whose toes are whose? Hint: I am not pictured and Wendy took the picture.

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Photography
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