We’ve got a History
Only three days to our wedding anniversary…or two if you’re my wife. While driving with our daughter Sarah in the back seat some years back I remarked on how poorly… Read more »
A Basic Library: Recommendations for Understanding Christianity?
If you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of books. I’m also a big fan of trying to understand things through logic and clear explanation and with a decent economy… Read more »
Gotta Love Suwon…
I just love the city of Suwon. It was one of the first cities I explored with a friend in 1984 (we wandered around looking for the wall before finally… Read more »
Osan has an Arboretum
Osan has an Arboretum And it’s quite nice. We spent a portion of the afternoon there and enjoyed the time very much. I’m sure that there are different things to… Read more »
Words! update…
A quick and very useful add to my previous “Words!” post. This too is from The Wilder Shores of Marx (I finished the book and it was quite good and… Read more »
I have slain the White Whale
I finished Moby Dick recently…and finally. I wanted to see if it was really as good and bad as my brother said. And the answer is “yes.” Resoundingly so. Here… Read more »
Words!
I’m not Kindle’s biggest fan, but it does have its good points. Of course, you can carry an entire library around with you in your pocket and always have something… Read more »
The Music of Bond. James Bond.
A recent conversation with my brother gave me the idea: I’ve correctly ranked the Connery and Moore Bond movies (despite what my brother said), now maybe I can go 3… Read more »
Tom Petty and the Apocalypse: Part I
Way back in 1982, MTV was pretty new, and as the joke goes, “it still showed music videos.” That year was big for me because I spent its entirety in… Read more »
A few good things…
The Wilder Shores of Marx I’m quite enjoying this book. It’s written by Theodore Dalrymple (pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British doctor) who travelled to five communist countries (Albania,… Read more »