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  • It's just occurred to me how strange the world of blogging is. I'm reading John Buchan's life of Sir Walter Scott, a book which I can't praise enough, and I came across a great quote. I said to myself "I'll run upstairs …

  • Fellow Presybterians Anselm and Eddie are in good Queen Margaret's demesne locking swords on the subject of nobility, Platonism and female beauty. Troop thither all, and behold.

  • As an Honors student I have to complete fifty hours of community service this school year. I only got in - eight, nine - this entire semester, so I decided it would be wise to get in some hours during vacation. Yesterday…

  • Here's a wise and thought-provoking story-essay by Mr. Callihan on the use of profanity and obscenity in art. I've already discussed this with some of you, especially diehard literature lovers, but it merits anyone's rea…

  • You know the scene in the movie: The hero, finding that he can no longer resort to half-measures and fighting through intermediaries, decides he must take things into his own hands, and challenges the villain in hand-to-…

  • They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LordAs the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,Who shall stand as a banner to …

  • I'm an Oh My. ~ Julia Think Wizard of Oz.

  • It seems time I explained the name of my site. It began with a quote by G.K. Chesterton: "It is always simple to fall: there are an infinity of angles at which one falls: only one at which one stands." The esteemed Mr. C…

  • After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ~ Kenneth Grahame in The Wind in the Willows

  • New favorite quotes from the living and the dead, the real and the fictional. A woman who pretends to be serious is wasting her time and spoiling her good looks. ~ Lord Peter Wimsey It is far more seemly to h…

  • I, who started the semester vowing to hate, or at least look at askance, postmodern literature, for all my life, am now reading the two books my class had to drop from the reading list, and the last half of the two (out …

  • WOW! Emanuel Sandhu won the Grand Prix final! Plushenko only got silver. Talk about a surprise! It looks like the Russians need to start taking the Canadians a little more seriously. After Salle and Pelletier, you'd thin…

  • Babysitting is, I suppose, an unavoidable part of every teenaged American girl's life. It's certainly been a good chunk of my own life. But I've never yet babysat any family outside my own without something happening. To…

  • The things I learn about myself. You should take this quiz: I'm not too fond of online quizzes, but this is The Scarlet Pimpernel after all. You are Lady Marguerite Blakeney! You are a charming, witty, beautiful…

  • It shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. Zechariah 14:7 It is a surprise that it should be so; for all things threatened that at evening time it shall be dark. God is wont to work in a way so muc…

  • Life's so complicated.

  • Random observations. Sleeping without any bedspreads isn't so comfortable, but sleeping with three isn't so comfortable either. No, I wasn't a debutante. Don't get "Siyahamb' ekukhanyeni kwenkos" stuck in your head. …

  • This is a very thought-provoking article by John Piper. I don't know where you all individually stand on the "culture redemption" issue, but I definitely stand with Dr. Piper.

  • Blueberry tea.

  • The checkout lady at Target tried to corrupt me this morning. The tag was missing from a clothing item, and she asked me if I knew the price - 4.99? 9.99? I told her it was closer to 9.99 but quite honestly I couldn't re…

  • I'm bouncing, bounding, dancing, prancing! I'm done! Done! D'ye hear that? I'm done! I finished my last exam at 5! - it took me an hour and forty minutes! I was so afraid it would take me all three hours, and my brain h…

  • If anyone wants my Christmas list, start it off with "mug." Between long cold treks to classes and exams, and living in the one room in my suite that doesn't get good heating, a cup of nice hot tea sounds really good pre…

  • My room is freezing and I have a horrible cold. Igh.

  • I have ONE EXAM left, and I'll have completed my entire first semester as a college student! But this last one is my absolute hardest. I'm going to be researching and studying for it all night and all tomorrow until 3 …

  • This is so exciting! My Latin teacher called me out into the hallway five minutes into the exam and said, "Karoline, you've got an A, you've always had one. I'm not going to make you take this exam. Write an A on it, put…

  • The things I learn about myself. Today one guy said to me, in unconcealed astonishment, after I said something about baseball, "Don't tell me you watch sports! I would never have guessed it!" Later somebody said, "You're…

  • Igh, I hate colds. Madrigal Dinner Menu Ye Victuals The proper manner of eating is with thy fingers and knife. Ye may beg of thy serving wench or boy utensile, if thee so choose. Ye Sallat of Fruits with Drops of Lem…

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