Heard on an NPR segment yesterday that there are special cell phones for the Orthodox. Orthodox Jews, that is. “The British Rabbinate is now offering kosher certification to cell phones it supports for members of the Ultra-Orthodox community.” They noticed that having access to the internet and texting was a hindrance to their children’s modesty […]
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Well, Greg and I had a difficult decision to make when we had been in Arizona for a few months. Folks who have read the blog regularly will know how very, very fond we were of good-dog Clementine, the bluetick coonhound. She was the only dog I’ve had that I could remember, but Greg, who […]
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Our self-knowledge is amazingly superficial. By self-knowledge, I do not, of course, mean a gnawing self-analysis, nor a morbid self-flagellation, nor that concentration on ourselves which has its source in pride. I mean an attentive, calm survey of the soul, a gaze turned inward, a deliberate effort to build up our lives consciously, so that […]
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Okay, I’m a little horrified. I knew it had been a while since I posted, but I didn’t know it had been a (boldface and italics intentional) while. I have to apologize (though as always when I’m blogging, I’m not exactly sure who I’m talking to). I have had a lot of things that occurred […]
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Watched a fascinating History Channel program last night on the Kennedy assassination and the flurry of conspiracies that have persisted about it. I found this interesting, because I did get a little caught up in the study of the inconsistencies — courtesy of a silly little do-it-yourself JFK conspiracy “kit” I came across in the […]
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The Advent season begins today, and not a moment too soon, eh? I had complained in past years about what the buying market does to Christmas — I think every Christian does. In my lifetime, I’ve seen the itchy sales pitches go from being background noise that started after Thanksgiving to being a truly obnoxious […]
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