Archive for November, 2007

My Tag Surfer is working again. For some reason, it was giving me a blank screen for a few days, but now it’s back. Tag Surfer? Well, I know some of you use the Blog Surfer to keep track of your favorite blogs. Tag Surfer is similar, but instead of adding your favorite blogfriends, you [...]

People often disparage blogs by saying “any fool can put his name on a blog and write whatever he wants to.” Well, that’s true. Any fool can — and they often do. So why bother? Does anyone pay attention? Does it matter whether anyone pays attention? I started writing on the web (other than on [...]

I’ve been spending a great deal of time lately writing and editing meeting minutes. Sunday night I sent out the minutes of at least three or four different meetings to the various committees I belong to. On the last email, I said I might just write up the minutes of my life and post them, [...]

by Kathleen McDade I recently read the entire His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman. The soon-to-be-released movie The Golden Compass is based on the first book of this trilogy. I enjoyed the books, although I found the end of the trilogy somewhat unsatisfying. The movie looks promising as well. I’m sure it differs from [...]

Two year old is standing on the dining room table. Me:  What are you doing? Two:  Walking! [starts walking around the tabletop] Me?  Well, pretty much all I can do is laugh.  And repeat the experience for you.

Nope, still no Golden Compass entry. I wrote this one a while ago, and it’s been sitting on my flash drive, waiting for me to upload it. Enjoy. Or don’t. A popular Christian contemporary song says that “God is in control,” and that is a comforting statement for many people. So many bad things happen [...]

I told someone I was going to post a blog entry about The Golden Compass yesterday. Well, I didn’t do it. I have one written, but I have a few things I want to add, and didn’t have time to do it last night. Meanwhile, I’m thinking about live music. I don’t get to hear [...]

I’m posting here just because I haven’t posted for a few days, and I’m tired of seeing Britney at the top of my RSS feed. So today, you are being treated to a diary post of sorts! Woo hoo! I don’t usually do the diary thing. I try to actually have something to write about. [...]