the first thing gideon asks almost every visitor who walks through the front door is, “do you know how to play chess?”
my advice is to lie.
keeping up appearances
vicar: "oh no, it's the bucket woman. drive, drive!!"
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for when you’re bored
"you don't even want to learn how to cook dahl!"
how to be free from bitterness
for your education in basic morality
"don't think it's yours just because you marked it with your urine!"
"every sperm is useful, every sperm is fine"
cranford (a town brimming with hyacinths)
"in the end he died, and god's people were glad."
"so make the bad horse gleeful, or he'll make you his mare..."
a pink christmas
Categories
the fixer upper
books i'm reading
books i've read lately
- a great mystery, 12/22/09
- a serrated edge, 09/07/09
- a son to me 07/07/09
- all god's children and blue suede shoes, 09/10/10
- building her house, 11/10/08
- creation in six days 10/07/08
- fascinating womanhood 09/20/08
- for a glory and a covering, 05/09/08
- from silence to song, 06/09/08
- heretics and orthodoxy 10/26/08
- miniatures and morals, 2009
- mother kirk, 11/05/09
- of domestical duties, 2010
- paradise lost (audio) 06/27/09
- paradox and truth 07/01/08
- plowing in hope, 02/17/10
- primeval saints, 03/13/09
- protocol matters, 2010
- receiving the day, 07/25/10
- searching for god knows what, 09/15/08
- the desire of ages 02/07/08
- the god of sex, 07/17/10
- the meaning of prayer 06/09/08
- the mystery of israel, 08/08/08
- the paideia of god, 09/03/09
- the promise of his appearing, 08/03/09
- the ragamuffin gospel 11/14/08
- the things you'll see, 2010
- the victory according to mark, 09/20/09
- total truth, 01/27/10
- what’s so amazing about grace? 02/11/09
friends
i like food, food tastes good
- amish white bread 02/15
- basmati rice with cashews, peas and fresh coriander, 11/07/08
- chickpea and spinach soup with garlic 02/15
- creamy chickpea curry, 12/23/08
- curried red lentil and swiss chard soup, 11/06/08
- hummus 02/26
- linguine with carrot ribbons and lemon-ginger butter 02/12
- naan, 11/07/08
- okra poppy seed curry 03/18/09
- oven fried eggplant
- vegan asparagus phyllo rolls 06/06
ipod fodder
- boys and classical education
- celebrating children
- chesterton: things worth doing well
- christian culture
- correcting children
- ecclesiastes
- educating children
- family sabbath celebration
- free from bitterness, maintaining joy and obedience
- getting serious about getting married
- instructing children
- living wisely in a media saturated culture
- men and masculinity
- the best marriage seminar *ever*
- the centrality of the home
- women and feminity
- women as homebuilders
- women as mothers
- women as wives
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