Much to our horror, my wife’s aunt gave our twin children each a radio a couple of years ago for Christmas. We monitor our children’s media consumption very carefully! Let me tell you how strict we are.
Take a look at this new carnival that yours truly is included in. I haven’t had time to read all of the submissions, but the ones I have read were worth the effort. The name of the carnival is the Carnival On Observations On Life.
One of my readers has taken me slightly to task for a remark I made in a recent post about being merely a Christian, as opposed to an ultra-Christian. I’m a fast writer, and I rarely rewrite. (Not necessarily good, I know) I was only dimly aware that I had even made that distinction. So, when I read my reader’s comment, I wondered what in the world I had actually meant. Let me explain.
Look, I’ve been married for quite a few years. And, brother, I know the score.
Biologically, men are made for three things 1) killing large animals and bringing them home to feed the family, 2) killing predators both animal and human in order to protect the family, and 3) making babies!
So, you’ve been doing the 21st century version of this for the past few years, and…well, it’s tough for a guy!
Uncle Absolutelee understands!
Chris Campa whose blog is The Oridinary Mystic (well worth reading!) commented on my last entry about the Virginia Tech shooting. Chris’ comments and his blog are always well thought through. So, instead of giving him a more cursory reply. I decided to reply to him in this post.
I really don’t like to listen to bad news unless I need to to know facts to keep myself and my family safe. If there’s a hurricane out in the Atlantic and I’m in a house on the coast, I want to know all the details–where it is, how strong it is, when is it going to make landfall.
I’ve tried not to listen to broadcasts about Cho Seung-Hui, the assassin at Virginia Tech. The story has gotten to me anyway. What strikes me about the media coverage is how they basically keep asking the question–how could this have been avoided? How can it be avoided in the future?
The answer is it couldn’t have been avoided, but so many lives did not have to be lost. Let me explain.
Techgirl has a good post about confidence in her blog, The Optimised Life. She talks about a time when she was a girl and she was nervous about talking with others. Her mother gave her some great advice and told her not to think about herself, but to think about who she was talking to.
I’m always interested in new paradigms that help me better my life. It’s amazing to me how much power thought has.
In my last post, I talked about how I view homeschooling vs. how educators in general view it. Here’s a great blog carnival on the subject of homeschooling. There, you’ll find a wealth of opinions, ideas, and how-to’s on the subject.
Homeschooling is big and getting bigger as educated Americans wake up to the inherent problems with public, mass schooling. If you have kids or are thinking of having children, this should be an alternative worth considering.
Yesterday when I woke up, I had two posts in mind that I thought were going to be a) hilarious and b) worthy of a Pulitzer 
. I have yet to write either of them. Steve Olson’s recent post threw me completely off track. But that’s good.
This morning I woke up at 6 am. (That’s sleeping late for me.) I made myself a cup of tea and sat down at the computer to just check on a few things.
One of the blogs that I follow closely is Steve Olson’s, because I know that every now and then, I’ll read a post there that really gets me smokin’! This post is one of those!
The title of Steve’s post is: When did America become a nation of frightened wimps?
Click over and read his post right now, then come right back here to read my response. (This is going to be great!)
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