SQJ Taipei

…That I’ve found so far.
There’s so much good stuff out there and I’d love to spend a lifetime listening to it all.
The other day I was just looking at the Cornerstone 2008 lineup and wishing I could go.
GRRR…. OK… calming down…
But anyway…
I discovered Muxtape a while back. It is a really sweet idea. When I [...]

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So today I mourn the loss of my last wisdom tooth.
Surprisingly the emotional pain isn’t as bad as the physical.
The top ones were fairly easy and not so painful… but the bottom teeth are a totally different story.
WOW. THIS. HURTS.
Apparently the lower jawbone (or is there only one jawbone?) is much more dense [...]

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Here’s one I keep putting off… but under my new policy… I’m just gonna put this up whether I have anything to say or not.
Tony Woodlief has a blog (Sand in the Gears) and he writes at World on the Web. I linked him before in this post and I always find his opinions thought [...]

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My goal was 40km.
Reaching that goal was seriously in doubt when, in my 2nd kilometer, I saw 2 dogs attacking a kitten. I have to admit that I really didn’t want to stop as I knew we couldn’t take another cat. We already have 1 which is probably twice as many as we should have.
However… [...]

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Although I’m old enough to feel old sometimes… like yesterday (after hoops and squash on Sunday)… and today (after 40k on the bike on Monday - with a cat)… I’m not probably old enough to know for sure that Ravi Zacharias is right about The Dying Art of Thinking, although I suspect that he is.
A [...]

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This was a good book. I’ve had an interest in the Normandy campaign for years, but still learned some from this book. What was most valuable for me, though, was the coverage of the Italy campaign and the German/Soviet front.
The book was edited by Tony Hall and he compiled a very nice group of authors [...]

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Long ago… on the detasseling crew… we’d eat bugs (mostly box-elder bugs) once in a while as part of our mind game strategy with the kids on our crew. It helped with discipline issues if they thought we were a little psycho.
But the most bugs I’ve ever eaten in my life was last Thursday night [...]

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Patrick Cowsill has a really interesting post about POWs in Taiwan during WWII. If you remember… Taiwan was under Japanese control until the end of WWII… so the POWs were Allied forces.
Patrick’s grandfather served in the Pacific and writes…
Actually, my grandpa hated the war; he rarely talked about it.
Same with my grandfather, who also served [...]

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In keeping with the spirit of the previous post… little to no commentary… here’s a good clip about one homeschooling family…
very well done
One of my favorite parts is when the homeschooling mom says that people often ask her how she knows if her kids are learning or not… her answer? I’m with them 24/7 so [...]

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Just a bit of news here…
Our MAY Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

In the Midst of It (some ways we serve in our apartment complex)
TMF Spring Retreat for Ladies (or maybe it is the TMF Retreat for Spring Ladies?)
The Thankful Pigeon

Clicking on the image below will open the PDF newsletter directly (about 105kb)

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