Posted in Things I Like on Mar 12th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I got an email from my cousin recommending this blog called Letters to a Parent and I really like it! The link over there goes to the specific letter she recommended, but I think a lot of them are certainly […]
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Posted in People I Like, Politics on Mar 8th, 2008
This is Colin. Bethany and I have spent the last two hours watching John McWhorter on CSPAN. He’s an elitist New York liberal, straight out of Berkeley, but a moderate one–and more than anything I like moderates, people who can speak intelligently and without passion. So the liberal political machine hates him like they hate Joe […]
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Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 20th, 2008
Yesterday the kids and I went to the zoo with my friend Natalie and her baby, Blake. We got three solid hours of sunshine and fresh air and exercise–it was awesome after what seems like months of being cooped up inside a little apartment.
The Little Rock Zoo was somewhat larger than I expected it to […]
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Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 4th, 2008
Today I’m feeling grateful for Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, the book that saved my life, and to our friend Marcie who recommended it to us.
When Degen was about Maggie’s age we were at our wit’s end because he was only sleeping about 4 hours in a given 24 hour period, and then only with […]
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Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Nov 27th, 2007
Last night Colin showed me a site called www.w3schools.com that has free online "web building" tutorials. I just finished taking the HTML tutorial and it was quite thorough. I'd never had any education in HTML besides the basic self-taught trial-and-error of building a web page from a template and messing around in Dreamweaver and building a WordPress […]
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Posted in Things I Like on Nov 16th, 2007
Colin set up iGoogle on the computer for me the other day and I really like it. It's kind of a home page or splash page that you can add little gadgets to. Mine has my email and a clock and calendar and a Flylady reminder box and a Book of Mormon Scripture of the […]
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Posted in Things I Like on Nov 15th, 2007
It's time again for one of my very favorite holiday traditions: reading A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. I read it at least once every year, sometimes more than once, and I can hardly think of anything else that brings the holiday spirit into my life and mood more, except perhaps less prosey and more […]
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Posted in Things I Like on Nov 11th, 2007
When they asked us to move to Arkansas, one of my first thoughts was "I hope they have Redbox there." Yes, that really was one of the first things I checked when analyzing the area. Redbox is a system of ATM-looking machines (big and red) where you can rent movies for $0.99/day, with no membership […]
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Posted in Religion/Church, Things I Like on Nov 7th, 2007
A favorite thing to share with y'all (yes, I live in the South now): http://scriptures.byu.edu/. It's called the "LDS General Conference Scriptural Index," which basically means that you can look up any scripture in the Standard Works (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price) and it links you to every […]
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Posted in People I Like, Reviews on Oct 26th, 2007
Today was a red-letter day: we found an endocrinologist who Colin likes! Dr. Griffiths is an older fellow who works in an office right next to St. Vincent's Hospital. He's originally from South Africa, so he has a charming accent, and he has the also charming trait of listening to Colin when he tells him […]
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