Driving stress

Emily E sent this to me a while back (it seems a homegroup at my church is not complete without at least one Emily.  I did go to a group with two in, happily they both left to start another group, and Emily E started coming.) A Visitor's

Psalms

From RBC's Bible in a year plan for today, Psalms 28-30 (also in Our Daily Bread), Psalm 30 stood out: Psalm 30I will exalt you, O LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me. O LORD my

Ephesians and cartoons

Looking through RBC's Our Daily Bread , this caught my eye: Ephesians 4:29-32Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.  And do not grieve

Myths and Legends

Picked up Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by Helene Guerber yesterday, great reading so far.  More about it later.

Observation

It's easier to put a cover on a futon than a duvet (quilt). Loose paper breeds rapidly. Objects can move from box to box by quantum tunnelling, disappearing from the box you left them in, and appearing in the box you just searched. If one person brings bagels

Snippets

I left my first ever Tour of Creve Coeur multi-cache on April 27th.  Coco was picked up yesterday and is heading for Chicago.  Hopefully from there he could leave the country and fulfill his mission of visiting New Zealand and the UK. The cat-on-a-leash experiment has

Word play

Eternal thanks to Fred of Fragments from Floyd for the link to Wordspy: Welcome to the home of the Word Spy! This Web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that

Blogging for a whole year and then some

My blog anniversary passed unnoticed in January.  The site hitting 25,000 page views passed unnoticed, as did the 15,000 visitor mark.  So heck with it, I'll do it today because it's an unremarkable Friday in May. I started this on January 10th 2002.  I

Random train of thought

The train now standing at platform three is the nine forty three to London, fast service, stopping at Woking, Clapham Junction, and London Waterloo.  If your travel plans today did not include London, this would be a good time to get off. There have been storms in St Louis, but

Poetry in motion

I tried Rob's Amazing Poem Generator on this page.  it came out with this. Quantum Tea rose and some little forwards. it felt like the house. and some Forget Me from lying on by lunchtime, all I never called. Things they list several emails are not related to