Archive for 2006
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Friday, December 29th, 2006Today is my birthday and the best present was to have my dad home from the hospital. I know this won’t mean much to a lot of you; but if you could have seen him a few days ago, you would know how far he has come.
Dad Update
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Dad got to come home after being released straight from ICU on Saturday. An ambulance brought him home. His first thought was that he’d be able to be home for Abbie’s birthday celebration. We made it but barely. He’d been wearing a pap (positive air pressure) mask which was expected that he occasionally might break [...]
ICU
Sunday, December 17th, 2006I’ve debated about posting this here, not knowing what I really want my blog to contain and what not to contain. I’d appreciate any prayers for my dad who went to the ER on Thursday night and has spent the last three days in ICU with pneumonia and sepsis. “Things looked grim,” according to one [...]
Music, music, music
Thursday, December 14th, 2006We went to Kansas City on Saturday to pick up Sam from the airport. We’ve been in the market for a new piano for awhile, but hadn’t found anything the girls liked. We finally we’re successful! You can read about the new piano at Abbie’s blog. Today Sam and Grace went to the music [...]
John Marshall Harlan
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006was an interesting man and a new personality in history for me. We’ve been reading from Opposing Viewpoints in American History Vol. II for the second half of US history this year. This week’s reading was on the Supreme Court opinions in Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896. The majority opinion of the court upheld the [...]
A Cautionary Tale
Thursday, November 30th, 2006This link was posted on an email book discussion list: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6185854.stm The story can make us consider whether one really can have too many books (or shelves at least), but I’d rather think that the woman ought to have been reading her books than trying to plug in the TV.
(HT to Lee Ann who doesn’t [...]
“Where’s MMV?”
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I thought this post at MMV was funny. I wish I were half so clever. I can just picture her kids coming in to find her in the morning, pulling down the blankets, and scrutinizing carefully the view trying to determine just where their mother is. And maybe if she lies there very quietly while [...]
Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I know I’m a little late in posting about our Thanksgiving. It was very nice especially being able to spend it with my dad for the first time in several years. (17 maybe?) We’ve had occasions where we’ve not had one son home because of being too far away. Nate was in Idaho for two [...]
Historical characters
Thursday, November 30th, 2006One of the things I like most about David McCullough’s writing is that he seems so fair in presenting the whole picture of a multi-faceted character: he will present the bad along with the good.
McCullough quotes George William Curtis who was responding to a reporter’s question about Theodore Roosevelt:
You’ll know more, sir, later; a deal [...]
Genealogy Software
Monday, November 27th, 2006I don’t have a lot of time to devote to genealogy. Even though I love it, my priorities are such that it takes a back burner to the rest of life. I will usually spend some time over Christmas and summer vacations and will also take one or two trips a year to go visit [...]
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