A year and a half ago I was scouring the internet for resources to help us as we prepared for Silas to enter kindergarten. I was specifically looking for help from believing parents who utilized their public school while intentionally shepherding their child’s heart towards Christ and imparting a distinctly Biblical worldview to their child.… Read More Christians Parenting Through Public School
This month I’m trying something new–a book club on Facebook. I miss the book club I was privileged to be part of in Indiana. We would read one book a month and then get together to talk about it. I loved that the first question we were asked was, “What did you like about the… Read More Online Book Club
The new website for Crossroad Baptist Church is now active. Stephen revamped the old website by switching from Joomla to WordPress, which gives us a more informative and attractive online presence. He customized the Ecclesia WordPress theme and updated the church’s information. The site includes photos, tweets, sermons, and a video presentation of the gospel.… Read More CBC Website Gets a New Look
These autumn days are too beautiful to stay indoors. Silas Clark and I have been going for strolls in the park and around our subdivision. Thursday, Baby and I spent the afternoon in our neighborhood park. I took a blanket, and we sat under a mesquite tree. Bitty Boy is walking like crazy now. That… Read More Of Autumn Days and Auntie “Visits”
The news report last night said that today, October 3rd, is supposed to be our last day of triple digit temperatures for the year. Hooray! Maybe now we can enjoy being outside. According to ABC 15 news, “monsoon 2011 will go down in the record books as the hottest ever in the Valley of the… Read More Is It Over?
Skype is wonderful! Tonight we were able to have a video call with my Pop-pop as he sat snugly in his farmhouse in little Preston, MD. It was so great to see him across the miles! The family sat around in the den after watching Jeopardy, and we caught up a little bit on family… Read More Pop-pop’s Peace
At first we felt dazed (mostly from the long hours on the bumpy seat of a moving truck) and overwhelmed at the thought that we were in Phoenix…to stay! We are no longer visitors, but residents. (However, we are still living out of suitcases in someone else’s home, so we still feel like visitors in… Read More Life in the Desert
This is really cool. Some German scientists have created a 3D face modeling program that allows them to map any face to a digital model and then manipulate facial expressions and other details. There’s a good bit of technical jargon at the beginning, but later they illustrate by manipulating some actual famous faces.
“Here’s”:http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Pro_Pod_Power_Tips/363 a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using playlist files. It’s actually quite intuitive know that I think about it, but it’s something… Read More Dial with your iPod
The BBC made a “big mistake”:http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770 when they accidentally interviewed Congolese immigrant and taxi driver Guy Goma in place of IT expert Guy Kewney on-air last week. The look on the wrong Guy’s face is priceless, but he gamely attempts to answer the questions anyway. Make sure to check out the video–it’s hilarious.