Archive for September, 2008

When Repetition Gets Old

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Repetition isn’t bad!
I try to make at least one meal every week that I know will make good leftovers.  Of course leftovers can be problematic in a family of two.  One can only eat chile so many times before one gets sick of it.  And there seems to be a magic point- say after a  [...]

Columbia Grand Prix

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Finally, a taste of National Velvet in real life!
Actually, my real life experience with jumping horses consists of driving past a farm and not being able to watch because, of course, I’m driving.  Frustrating.
Well, at the Grand Prix I finally got to watch, and watch, and watch.
It’s neat watching large, heavy animals leap over fences. [...]

Book Thirteenth

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Guess what, everyone…I’m halfway through!  
This book focuses on what happens to the body and to the soul in the first death (here on earth) and the second death (eternal punishment).  
…this Latin word “moritur” [to die] cannot be declined by the grammarians according to the rule followed by similar words….But “mortuus”, though in form [...]

Book Twelfth

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Sunday morning I felt really anxious.  I had a muscle twitching in my forehead (it looked really weird) and was suddenly afraid I was having eye problems — irrational fears that present real problems when I  try to deal with them.  
This is where Augustine can come in handy.  I get very caught up in [...]