by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2007 | Comedy, Reminiscences, World Views
As the ways of the world expand and become more complicated, things that should be sharp and clear become hazy, dull and nearly unobtrusive to some. Is the majority simply too weary to debate ancient cultural traditions that have since been commercially modernized?...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 28, 2007 | Journal, Reminiscences
I planned to include some excerpts from my old October 2001 journal this fall. That year was hectic because we had to do lots of traveling immediately after we moved to our new home due to Dad’s military work. To us children at the time it was a lot of fun. I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 26, 2007 | In Otherwords
*Included in your card is my favorite October bouquet from Fair Hills Farm!* It is a pleasure to accept an invitation to the birthday party of a lovely blogger, homeschooler and Christian young lady…who also shares my first name (along with some other great...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 18, 2007 | World Views
My father forwarded an e-mail from a friend of his to me last month. The e-mail contains a list of well researched statistics regarding military fatalities in the past. The significance of this information reveals a plain and simple (though often ignored) fact. Pure...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 11, 2007 | World Views
Recently I saw an online article about intellectuals disputing the authorship of Shakespeare’s writings. They said that Shakespeare, “being a provincial lad”, could not have possibly written such excellent dramas regarding law, politics, philosophy,...
