Leap Day!
I don't mean to be shallow, but I have decided to make a post on February 29, 2008 simply because I will not be able to post on this day for another four years. Besides that, the weather has been alternating between freezing and balmy (I should save those details for...
Eclipses
Lunar Eclipse as viewed from the Southern sky on February 20, 2008. Photographed by Rachel, Abigail and me (I think Rachel took the big one and Abigail probably took the rest of the group, as I'm not certain mine made the cut for my own blog post). Ah, how...
February Unfolds
February is showing itself to be quite an eventful month! It is also a leap year, remember. Apparently every Presidential Election year happens to be a leap year (every four years). Some friends visited yesterday. Next weekend John Y. is returning from Denver for a...
Officially Miss Read
Well, today was my 18th birthday. I believe my littlest siblings were more excited about it than I was (cake and celebrations are so fresh and new in their young minds). When I was but 10 I often said, "I only have 8 years left before I become officially an...
2008 Thus Dawns…
What have I been doing all this time, exactly? Experiencing our miniature festivities of the closing year and completing my debut screenplay (ha) so I can then focus on completing my course work and then write and paint 'till the end of time....or something to that...
Family Forces
Originally I intended to post this old interview on Veteran's Day. However, since the article was misplaced until now, that has been delayed. I remember the day when the news reporter and photographer stopped by our house to do an article for The Huntsville Times...
The Map Of Excellence
Colonial America, being the turning point for the Old World and the starting point for the New, ought not be misrepresented. The people and politics of the continental experiment could not have been perfect or utopian, and neither did they strive for such unrealistic...
The Busyness Of The Falling Year
Perhaps that title doesn't make very much sense. I was referring to the busyness going on as this year reaches its height of Fall. I have had quite a few blog posts in mind, but I have delayed posting them deliberately. I'm considering saving my more topical posts...
To Trick-Or-Treat Or Not Trick-Or-Treat, That Is The Question
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?...
An October At Fort Monroe
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 took...
My Birthday Card To Super Angel
*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 blogging...
Media: The Industry Of Mediocrity
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...
