Archive for the 'Books' Category
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Any of you who’ve stayed around here for very long know that this blog goes in any number of directions. Today we’re back to baking. I LOVE baking bread! I love eating bread… Minus the potential biblical problems with the statement, I think I could live off the stuff, especially if it’s good and crusty […]
Read More..>>Hot Cocoa Mix
Winter is here which means that 2 things are a fairly constant reality in my life: (1) I think back on the days when I was a child and considered it slightly embarrassing to heat with wood (something I find difficult to believe now since I intensely lust after the possibility of some day having […]
Read More..>>Good Consistory Meeting
We had our July consistory meeting last night (postponed from last week because of the fireworks we were supposed to have then) and I have to say, the elders’ part was one of the best elders’ meetings we’ve ever had. Not that we discussed anything particularly new or controversial but we did finally come […]
Read More..>>Dumbledore’s best quip…
I posted on this on August 1, 2005 (apparently the first time I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince), and ran across it again the other day (re-reading the series in light of the impending release of the final book and the next movie) but it’s worth pointing out again… great quip….
“I don’t […]
Book Recommendation
I was doing some research last week on the Dunbar Number for an article on church size that I’m writing and ran across the book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (New York: Little, Brown and Company Back Bay Books, 2000 - ISBN: 0-316-34662-4). The book is […]
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