Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The 16th president of the United States would be 200 years old today if he was still alive. Unfortunately, an assassin’s bullet cut his remarkable life short at the age of 56 – not that he would still be alive today, but his assassination was still very tragic of course. […]
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Last night was the first night we have been on the Huber stage. I have been in the audience to watch a production of School House Rock, Jr (think I’ve mentioned that before). However, stepping onto the stage was something else entirely. An actual stage raised above the audience with an orchestra pit beneath. Even
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You might have noticed a decrease in the frequency of my blogging. I am still super-busy with my 4 kids, but now that the horrible months-long-lasting illness has run its course through our house, I have more energy and time than I’ve had in a long time… so why am I posting less? Because I’ve
happenings my life for the past 50 years. Not that your things aren’t important too, but it is my birthday. 😉 1) 1959 I was born — That made this post possible 2) 1983-1984 I met my future wife and married her 3) 1981 thru 1991 My four daughters were born 4) 2003 My wife
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While looking over my Firestats, I came across an interesting link. I have known for years that a common misconception surrounding the song “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music is that it is an Austrian folksong. This is false. It was the final lyric written by Oscar Hammerstein II and had nothing to do with
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Do you remember the days back in the 1980s and early 90s when cable television was (and some of us still think) having issues and it seemed that every time you turned around, there would be some technical problem? Ok… at least one of my commenting readers does not Attempts made to correct the
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I’m not exactly sure what I did, I don’t remember deleting a post, but one I spent a bit of time on is gone. This will hold a place until I find the missing text. Maybe tomorrow. Original Post Title. The Last 50 Years. justj
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A show on PBS right now (started 10:00pm Tuesday 10-Feb-2009) is about the translation of the early Christian bible to native tongues. The Catholic Church and many countries made it heresy to translate the bible into the vulgar, but people after reading various “heretical” translations started creating many vulgar translations. While I knew a lot
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Saturday was one of the funnest days I’ve had in a long time. I’ve been having major zoo-fever lately, and my husband knew this and renewed our Toledo Zoo membership online before I even woke up Saturday morning. When I finally arose, he said, how about going to the zoo today? So we packed up
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I’ve often been told practice makes perfect. I’ve also been told that nobody is perfect. Does that mean nobody practices enough? Well for one 14 year old young man, I guess he practiced enough. A new world record on Guitar Hero. I’m not much of a video game player, (not since Centipede and Q-Bert left
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