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FARMbloomington
As one or two of the links on my blogroll might suggest, I tend to support the local food movement, or at least parts of it; I have a membership at my local food co-op, I’ve read Crunchy Cons and The...
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Talking about politics without talking about politics and other musings
A week ago Thursday, we arrived in Wasilla, Alaska where we were spending the long weekend with my mother and some other family. At dinner that evening, the politics of the presidential campaign came...
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Maybe Buy n Large really is coming to a neighborhood near you…
From MSNBC, an article about a gene that makes one susceptible to obesity without 3-4 hours of moderate activity a day. The Amish who have this gene aren’t obese, however, because they, well, don’t...
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Words of wisdom from the Crunchy Con and the Khouriye
I’m always disturbed by what seems to be an enshrinement of ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and lack of curiosity. Thankfully, an insistence on mistrusting those who can string five words together to...
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s favorite band
With a tip of the hat to Rod Dreher, I find myself very intrigued by English folk/roots duo Show of Hands. Rather than attempt to describe them when I’m still getting familiar with their music myself,...
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Post-Lenten unwind
This last weekend was the most relaxed I’ve had in a couple of months. I didn’t have to set an alarm Saturday morning, and we were able to leisurely make biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Yesterday,...
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Gifted education
Rod Dreher has a post about plans in Louisiana to cut the budget of their residential public high school for gifted and talented kids. Read the whole thing, but these bits stick out to me: It’s...
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Reflecting on shame and identity
Rod Dreher has what is, at least for me, a very thought-provoking essay over at Crunchy Con. Actually, “thought-provoking” is a euphemism. I’ll be blunt — it hits what is, for me, a permanently raw and...
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(hack) Thanksgiving leftovers (koff)
It’s the first day of December. How the heck did that happen? On the way out to New Mexico last week, I sat between a married couple who were both sick and kept coughing across me. It was Southwest...
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Can’t quite place you…
Rod Dreher returned to the blogging world last month; having left the Dallas Morning News (and Dallas) for the Templeton Foundation and Philadelphia last year, he is now at The American Conservative...
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