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 4, 2007 | Reminiscences
Recently Rachel and I listened to Diana Waring’s tape True Tales: Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries. It brought back memories from seven years ago when we first listened to it… October 4, 2000 was a Wednesday – Science and History day in A Place To...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 26, 2007 | Journal, Literary Projects
That surprisingly odd question appeared in my mind one day after struggling for an excuse as to why I had not completed a contribution to the Priceless Purity e-zine. Througout the days, weeks, months and believe it or not, years I will spend an enormous amount...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 11, 2007 | Reminiscences, World Views
“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.” ~ Henry Cabot Lodge SEPTEMBER TENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND ONE CLOSED as a happy Monday...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 5, 2007 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal
My parents’s 19th wedding anniversary was on August 27th. My sister Beth’s 3rd birthday was on August 30th. My dad’s birthday was on August 10th. September has arrived. Summer is coming quickly to a close. The...
