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Propaganda, Truth, and Memories

Well, it's pouring rain out today, and once again I'm getting nothing done. So I toddle over to xanga and find out that revelife wants to feature a post of mine...what does that mean, exactly, I wonder? I ne…
Do You Measure Up?

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein This quote is a great comfort to me, because when I start counting my virtues and good works, I come up really…
If Only I Could Write in the Shower

I have many -- say a zillion or so-- ideas for things to blog about throughout the day. The big problem is when I have those ideas. It's almost always when I'm not able to write them down--when I'm hanging clothes on…
A Wonderful Book!

Written by a black man about his white Jewish mother, this is just a fascinating book. An incredibly strong woman, Ruth McBride Jordan was widowed twice, lived in poverty in the "projects" and with no particular skill…
The Shack

EDIT: So no one has a comment or opinion on the part that I have bolded below? I thought it was an important question. Okay, who else has read it? I just finished The Shack by William Young, and then I went to look up…
The Phantom Tollbooth

I'm reading this aloud to my family right now, and I often find myself wanting to stop and just savor the style. Somehow I just didn't expect such absolutely excellent writing in a "nonsense" book. In fact, I just wa…
Icky

I hate books that leave you feeling icky. And I didn't think the ending was believable at all.
Big or Little?

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look "little" or "big." Amy Carmichael wrote: There is no gre…
What Is a Woman?

This book makes some really good points. Why did God create male and female with distinct biological traits and call them "very good" if androgyny is ideal?Why didn't God make women exactly like men in their muscle mass…
One of the Great Books

I am annoyed by those who love mankind but are cruel and discourteous to people. -Curtis Bok, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1960 This is a book that everyone should read, whites and blacks and every col…