Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Books, crafts, food, tv on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some things I’m loving
1. Farmers’ market popcorn. I get to meet the people who grow it, it comes in a glass jar, and it pops up amazing. I like to make popcorn in a pan, with oil, shaking it occasionally over the stove top. I put salt on the unpopped kernels before I start, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged memorial on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Flanders Fields (1915)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Internet, Narnia, prayer, relationship on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My laptop was in the shop for a week. At first, I missed it terribly. I needed to check Facebook a few times a day, and keep up with all the blogs I read, and read Salon as I get ready for work, instead of stealing glances at it while actually at work. Let alone [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged kids, moral dilemmas, Sunday school on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday, when I was teaching Sunday school, the discussion was about Zacchaeus–the disliked, short, tax collector who climbed up in the tree to see Jesus as he passed by. One of the points of the story is that Zacchaeus was a cheater, and a liar, but had a complete change of heart after dining [...]
Posted in Science, tagged My body, Science on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I gave blood today. It was M’s idea; he’s been doing it pretty regularly for long before I knew him. The past few times I’ve had the opportunity, I wasn’t able because I’d been to Haiti too recently. And once, they couldn’t find a vein. (They dug around for a while, digging, digging, and finally [...]
