I got a question in the comment section of my “about me” page about use of quoted material on a blog. Because my answer was too long-winded for a comment, and because I’m by no means an expert, I answered it via email. However, it got me thinking more consciously about the subject.
I’ve been blogging for [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Fair and balanced blogging
Posted in Writing/Blogging on April 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Private or permeating?
Posted in News on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
There’ve been some interesting comments lately about the intersection — or lack thereof – between faith and politics. Last week, there was a furor over this remark by Obama in Pennsylvania:
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade [...]
In the Presence of My Enemies
Posted in Nonfiction on April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This book leaves me unsure. It’s an account of missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, who went away for a romantic anniversary weekend, and were kidnapped by terrorists and held for over a year in the Philippine jungle. Gracia lived to tell the tale.
In the Presence of My Enemies is about the story, not the writing. It persistently rejects the temptation [...]
Hide and seek
Posted in Poetry on April 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s Poetry Friday at The Well-Read Child, and I saw this poem in a children’s book and loved it…
“The Unwritten,” by W. S. Merwin:
Inside this pencil
crouch words that have never been written
never been spoken
never been taught
they’re hiding
they’re awake in there
dark in the dark
hearing us
but they won’t come out
not for love for time for fire…
Read the [...]
Vocabulaphobia
Posted in Memes on April 17, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Suggested by Nithin:
I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue reading [...]
Looking for gates of splendor
Posted in Bible, Life, Nonfiction on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I tossed and turned a lot in the night. I went to a meeting for homeschoolers last night and came home with my usual complex of doubts as to whether I’m pursuing the right course. Other homeschoolers seem so much more enthusiastic about taking on the extra commitments of co-ops and committees. I’m just not that [...]
Carnival of Homeschooling
Posted in Homeschooling on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
The Carnival of Homeschooling will be hosted by Nerd Family today.
New look
Posted in Life on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I read a post on another blog not long ago called “Top Ten Reasons I Don’t Read Your Blog.” One of them was excessive tinkering — changing the look of the blog too often.
To which I have two responses, then an explanation for why I’ve changed mine.
First, I have great respect for blog readers. Anyone [...]
Through Gates of Splendor
Posted in Nonfiction on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How do I begin to come to terms with this book?
At some point I became familiar with the story of the five missionaries killed in Ecuador in the ’50’s. Last year I read Steve Saint’s End of the Spear, and it deepened my appreciation and curiosity. But though I’ve had this book since Christmas, it’s taken [...]
Poetry Friday: The Secret
Posted in Poetry on April 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This week I pulled my Norton Anthology of Poetry off the shelf and read, “Denise Levertov’s writing is a poetry of secrets, in which the poet uncovers something hidden, like a physicist plumbing the atom.” In light of that, I smile when I read her poem ”The Secret”:
Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.
I who don’t [...]
