This link here is a blog by Cedar Sanderson on her struggle with helping her kids, and how it can strangle their independence. With two kids of my own I see the same thing. Perhaps it is just my memory, but I think I had more independence in my growing up, and my kids generation … Continue reading The Swift Précis
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Muppets: Luck of the Irish
I decided to do a Muppet-themed blog today. Ran into both of these today while surfing the internet. Just wanted to shout out how lucky we are to have had such a creative person as Jim Henson and his muppets. Certainly is the luck of the Irish that the world gets such creative people. https://www.facebook.com/LoadedMagazine/videos/10154683407607127/ … Continue reading Muppets: Luck of the Irish
Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Related Work
Continuing a theme I will feature a few more times, below is the listing of the category "best related work": BEST RELATED WORK (2080 ballots) Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini (Castalia House) “The First Draft of My Appendix N Book” by Jeffro … Continue reading Hugo Awards: Voting for Best Related Work
Starlight Opens
This is the first year we have attended Starlight's Broadway shows on Tuesday nights. As such, we are going to attend a lot of opening nights. Most of the Broadway shows open on Tuesday. The first show of the season is tonight. It is Matilda, by Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. … Continue reading Starlight Opens
Gestalt of Firefly
The Ballad of Serenity Take my love. Take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black. Tell em I ain't comin' back. Burn the land And boil the sea. You can't take the sky from me. … Continue reading Gestalt of Firefly
Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it
Today's post is going to be a quick quote out of Heretics by G.K. Chesterton: Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good. We are fond of talking about "liberty"; that, as we talk of it, is a dodge to avoid … Continue reading Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it
Veterans and Books
Today seems a perfect day to tout the Avondale United Methodist Book Club's latest book discussion. On Saturday, Nove. 14, 2015 at 10 a.m. in the church library, we will be discussing the book When Books Went to War about the efforts to give American service personnel reading material during World War II. I have … Continue reading Veterans and Books
Too Short a Season/The Summer of our dining contentment
Well yesterday was the last day. The 2015 season of Worlds of Fun came to a close. With it came the end to a season of amusement park fun, and the end of our season dining plan. Durning the season the four of us ate a combined total of 674 meals, at a retail value … Continue reading Too Short a Season/The Summer of our dining contentment
A Royal Sports Bar…
Chickie's and Pete's was a good place to enjoy a rainy evening at World's of Fun on Friday. For some reason, all the TVs were broadcasting the Royals game with the Mets. Go figure. In Kansas City. The place wasn't packed, but there were enough people to keep the tables mostly filled. One group of … Continue reading A Royal Sports Bar…
Batman and Robin
Last night I watched a second season episode of the 1960s Batman and Robin television show. It was a wonderful, humorous, formulaic show. You could always count on the corny phrases, the fight scenes, the cliff-hanger ending that they got out of at the beginning of the next episode by some "logical" trick of science … Continue reading Batman and Robin
At The Rainbow 