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  • P.S. Am I the only one who finds something inexplicably pleasant about driving in the very, very early morning?

  • I've been hanging out with a half dozen Mustangs and a couple Saleens today, and learning random interesting facts about enhancing their power. But what in the world is an "X pipe"? I hope Food Lion is still in business…

  • ~ Karoline: (calling to dining room) Kent, what spices go well with beef?Kent: Hmm, try basil.Kimberly: And pepper.Karoline: Do we have any basil?Kerr: Karoline, pepper too!Julia: Karoline doesn't like pepper.Kerr: Yes …

  • As he very often is, C.S. Lewis is profoundly right. If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not…

  • My mother informs me one should say to the groom "congratulations" and to the bride "best wishes." hmm

  • gotta love the endless possibilities for answering machine messages . . . "Hi. I'm probably home, I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you." "Hi. This is John. If y…

  • I'm reading Acts right now, and since Pastor Withington preached through the entire book not so long ago, I've been referring back to my sermon notes as I read through the book. I was reading my notes for his sermon on A…

  • The pictures have forthcome! Login is fall1 and password is tarheel. Check out the second album - I doubt there's much interesting to y'all in the first one.

  • I was studying my art history today in the living room, and over time Kerr, Julia and Jeanna all wandered in, found books, and sprawled over the sofas to read. After about an hour I changed my position, and bewailed how …

  • Another Schola alumnus, Jason Ewert, has a blog.

  • However much or however little you know of Latin, you can't but appreciate the majesty and the plain beauty of this . . . The Nicene Creed Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium …

  • When you blog, you feel compelled to be a faithful blogger. But sometimes you simply don't have anything to say, and then it's a temptation to chatter idly.

  • My sisters are just weird. There's no other word for them. And of them all, Julia (who's nine) has to be the weirdest. There was the time she turned around and looked at Kent and said plaintively, "Ow, my nose hurts!" Ke…

  • I have mixed feelings about big stores like Target and WalMart, all noise and traffic and moneymaking, but they're surely the only stores where you can walk around with a boom box and four pounds of red grapes in your sh…

  • I missed a day! Is that enough to prove I'm not an addict? I'm in the middle of The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis right now. I recognize some lines of thought from Till We Have Faces. I love that sensation of meeting old fr…

  • . . . I worked all day yesterday, and along about 1 o'clock Michael, whose task it is to keep me busy, went out to get Chinese for our lunch. He handed out my order to me when he got back, and was returning to his office…

  • I'm such an English major it's not even funny. I woke up this morning, contemplated my calendar for a few moments, sat up and looked down, and thought "Wow, this stack of books by my bed is getting ridiculous." This af…

  • I love C.S. Lewis. Until they have a baby to laugh at, lovers are always laughing at each other.

  • It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him. 1 Samuel 3:18

  • I don't like getting up early at all, but I do like being up early, especially in the late spring and early summer when early morning is the only time of day it's fresh and cool outside. When I left the house this mornin…

  • Rainy days are for sleeping late. Today is one of those slow, quiet summer rains when even the thunder sounds lazy. I was sitting at the piano after I got tired of reading, looking out through the sunroom windows and p…

  • Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! In my list of beautiful objects below, I omitted chocolate cakes. I'm sure the gods have some terrible avengement to inflict on me for my ingratitude.

  • Guys have it figured out. Cars and guns and baseball are good, solid, sensible company. Maybe if girls spent a little more time with THINGS they wouldn't get so peevish and irritable about trivialities. I was well on …

  • Yesterday, after scraping my knee and smashing my toes for the ten thousandth time as I entered my room, I decided to try to clear away at least two or three of the overflowing laundry baskets, and get my sisters' shoes …

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