Hallowe’en, 2006
Happy Hallowe’en! My boys are not very excited about Hallowe’en this year, and I will be in class this evening while they hand out the goodies, so I really am not participating much at all. Usually, I am in costume […]
Arguing Against God
Once the wedding gift was off the critical list, I returned to my regularly scheduled needlework and finished the Log Cabin Socks for Socktober. In the absence of any suitable replacement for the yarn I ran out of, I used […]
Preparing for Hallowe’en
Pumpkins were the main thing yesterday. We did go to one of the local bakeries for some of their cranberry-pecan bread. It makes amazing turkey sandwiches. And we did our other errands — hairdresser, grocer, etc. — and then to […]
My Death Plan
Thanks to Dingus6, I found the Death Clock, which assures me that I am halfway through my life. Also that I will perish in July. On the 25th, in fact. There I’ll be, a few years short of my hundredth birthday, […]
Dawkins Disappoints
I am going out today to buy Hallowe’en candy, and you probably are too. #2 son is coming with me to make sure that I get good stuff, by which he means candy that he will want to eat, since […]
Quilting Texture
Here is the table runner. I am showing it to you both vertically and horizontally in hopes that it will look different from the last time you saw it. I have completed the applique, some of which was just pinned […]
Agreeing to Disagree
It has been very quiet at work lately, and yesterday’s rain made it even more so, so I had plenty of leisure to think about a conversation on evangelism that Sighkey and I had, and to extend the thought further […]
Fact Checking the Scandalous
The fact-checking is complete and I am sending it in. I am not happy with it. For those who are wondering what I am talking about, I have been fact-checking an entry for the state history encyclopedia. It has to […]
The God Delusion
I am a great fan of Richard Dawkins. I have read all his books. I saw him last week on the Colbert Report, and he seems to be a very nice, twinkly, grandfatherly sort of man. He had the air, […]