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  e-read Orthodox classics for 99-cents!

  May 1st, 2011 | Books | Grace | 2264No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Fe-read-orthodox-classics-for-99-cents%2Fe-read+Orthodox+classics+for+99-cents%212011-05-01+01%3A38%3A58Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2264

  Just hap­pened to see this on Ama­zon. This is an amaz­ing deal! “My Life in Christ” is an unpar­al­leled gem for any Ortho­dox reader, and it has been hard to get the unabridged hard­back ver­sion for under $50, since it’s out of print. (More from me on this incred­i­ble book and what’s it meant to […]

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  I want to have tea with Sir Hugh! Right now!!

  April 26th, 2011 | Things concerning tea | Grace | 22463 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fthings-concerning-tea%2Fi-want-to-have-tea-with-sir-hugh-right-now%2FI+want+to+have+tea+with+Sir+Hugh%21+Right+now%21%212011-04-26+20%3A41%3A38Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2246

  Appar­ently, Greg thought I was in dan­ger of actu­ally get­ting some­thing done today, because he sent me a link to a blog­post guar­an­teed to make me waste time. It’s from FX Cui­sine, the globe-trotting adven­tures of a Swiss cheese-lover named Fran­cois. I was okay with it when he was just going on about hand­crafted cheeses […]

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  Racing in the Rain, mute angels and loneliness

  June 26th, 2010 | Books, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 15545 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Fracing-in-the-rain-mute-angels-and-loneliness%2FRacing+in+the+Rain%2C+mute+angels+and+loneliness2010-06-26+17%3A15%3A49Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fracing-in-the-rain-mute-angels-and-loneliness%2F

  Just fin­ished read­ing The Art of Rac­ing in the Rain yes­ter­day morn­ing, just in time for Clemen­tine to dis­prove the author’s con­tention that dogs are clear-thinking, non-judgmental and sympathetic.

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  “Annotated Wind in the Willows” — A Sour Note on a Charming Classic

  January 23rd, 2010 | Books | Grace | 14506 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Ftaking-another-look-at-wind-in-the-willows%2F%26quot%3BAnnotated+Wind+in+the+Willows%26quot%3B+--+A+Sour+Note+on+a+Charming+Classic2010-01-24+02%3A48%3A27Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Ftaking-another-look-at-wind-in-the-willows%2F

  Find­ing out that there was an anno­tated “Wind in the Wil­lows,” I just had to put it on my Christ­mas wish list. I had been assum­ing that even though other anno­tated clas­sics have turned out to be dis­ap­point­ments, there was no way any­one could ruin “Wind in the Wil­lows.” Right? Wrong. But the book did […]

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  The Boundless Garden: Yes, you can buy it!

  June 20th, 2009 | Books | Grace | 13521 Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Fthe-boundless-garden-yes-you-can-buy-it%2FThe+Boundless+Garden%3A+Yes%2C+you+can+buy+it%212009-06-20+13%3A54%3A22Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fthe-boundless-garden-yes-you-can-buy-it%2F

  I’m very late catch­ing up on some old busi­ness that came my way before the trip. The one I really want to get to is a mis­take I made back HERE when I was review­ing “The Bound­less Gar­den” by Alexan­dros Papa­dia­man­dis (known as “The Greek Dos­toyevsky.”) I said then that the book was out of […]

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  The Greek Dostoyevsky

  March 11th, 2009 | Books | Grace | 12608 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Fthe-greek-dostoyevsky%2FThe+Greek+Dostoyevsky2009-03-12+04%3A49%3A38Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fthe-greek-dostoyevsky%2F

  When I opined back here that I had been a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed with “The Broth­ers Kara­ma­zov,” Father Luke Har­tung com­mented that I might pre­fer the writ­ings of Alexan­dros Papa­dia­man­dis, who has been called “The Greek Dos­toyevsky.” Father Luke also vol­un­teered to send me a col­lec­tion of Papa­dia­man­dis’ short sto­ries called “The Bound­less Gar­den” if I […]

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  Three books

  December 13th, 2008 | Books | Grace | 12136 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fbooks%2Fthree-books%2FThree+books2008-12-13+23%3A37%3A32Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fthree-books%2F

  I’ve had three books sit­ting on my desk for days, wait­ing patiently till I had time to do a quick review. They are: “The Jour­nals of Father Alexan­der Schme­mann 1973–1983″*, “The Broth­ers Kara­ma­zov”** and a totally absur­dist romp called “The Areas of My Exper­tise”*** by John Hodg­man. The pri­vate thoughts and wor­ries of an Orthodox […]

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  My tea tree

  November 23rd, 2008 | Just a slice of heaven, Things concerning tea | Grace | 12062 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Flife%2Fjust-a-slice-of-heaven%2Fmy-tea-tree%2FMy+tea+tree2008-11-24+01%3A39%3A59Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fmy-tea-tree%2F

  I got a lit­tle fake Christ­mas tree at Wal­mart with­out a clue what I was going to do with it. But set­ting it up in the kitchen, I got an idea and made myself happy. Behold my tea tree!

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  But first, a word about my tea

  September 6th, 2008 | Things concerning tea | Grace | 11383 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fbooks-and-tea%2Fthings-concerning-tea%2Fbut-first-a-word-about-my-tea%2FBut+first%2C+a+word+about+my+tea2008-09-06+19%3A23%3A07Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fbut-first-a-word-about-my-tea%2F

  I’m look­ing at a won­der­ful thing — a real live errand-free Sat­ur­day. Maybe I can relieve the gen­tle pres­sure on my brain by get­ting out all the blog posts that have been back­ing up in my head. Maybe then I’ll know which ones were worth the trou­ble of express­ing and which weren’t. Maybe I’ll be […]

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  Decaffeinating your tea naturally

  May 29th, 2008 | Potpourri for 100, Alex, Things concerning tea | Grace | 11061 Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Flife%2Fpotpourri-for-100-alex%2Fdecaffeinating-your-tea-naturally%2FDecaffeinating+your+tea+naturally2008-05-29+16%3A26%3A21Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fdecaffeinating-your-tea-naturally%2F

  Came across this infor­ma­tion in a tea cat­a­log I get. I thought it was worth know­ing that there’s an easy way to remove a lot of the caf­feine from any tea with­out impact­ing the fla­vor. I plan on giv­ing it a try. Not today, maybe, because today I need that caf­feine, but … some­time. Teas […]

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