96% of the people when confronted by the snowstorm hitting the U.S. where it is supposed to snow this time of year, Mr. and Mrs. Newcaster, would look at the blizzard and say “Holy Shit” if they attempted to drive in it.
A couple more cheap and free things!
Dollar Days - at the Corvette Museum. Do you have a (valid) Kentucky I.D.? Just show it this month and get into the Corvette Museum for only $1.00. It's a...
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Number of comments: 0 The writing has been on the wall. The Soap Opera is a dying species. When, after 57 years, Guiding Light came to an end earlier this year I knew, eventually, the same could happen to My Show. Eventually. I really thought others would go before it. [...]
Number of comments: 2 10 things I want but probably wouldn't buy for myself 1. A Flip camera2. A Nintendo DS 3. Diamond stud earrings4. House of Harlow 1960 Necklace5. A Tiffany & Co. key necklace 6. The entire stock of Sephora...7. ...and MAC Pro.8. A super fancy' [...]
While making a website, a blog, and other networking resources for nontraditional students (who are students going back to school after a break) I ran across many great resources that I found extremely helpful.
Number of comments: 1 Glenn Beck might be the devil.
In between watching PTI on EPSN at the gym tonight, I would catch a minute or two of Glenn Beck's show. I don't watch any news talk shows on a regular basis (unless you count the Colbert Report or the Daily Show), much' [...]
The lights and displays in Bowling Green, Kentucky are beautiful.
This week, try just riding around and looking at some great light displays around town. There are some really good ones out...
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Are you on Twitter? I am there as @betsyanne and @nontrads. Every so often I try to post a few fun Twitter postings here or on another blog.
You can find some fun tweets there just by going to...
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We talked a bit about this today, but this article by J. I. Packer on Christianity Today is a great resource about the incarnation. Packer lays out a very solid argument for the orthodox understanding of the eternal incarnation of Christ. View this article, “Good Question: Incarnate Forever” by [...]
Don’t make idols, don’t use God’s name in vain, keep the Sabbath holy, honor your parents, don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t covet. These are hard – but doable. The 10 commandments, I can do – maybe not perfectly but better than what Jesus asked me [...]
“Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul” (Psalm 146:1).
The last five psalms in the wonderful Book of Psalms (Psalms 146–150) comprise what might be considered a great “Hallelujah Chorus” to this “Hallel” book—the “book of Israel’s praises,” as the [...]
Don't miss the (Jaycees) Christmas parade. It is Saturday Dec. 4th downtown in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It starts at 9:30. Come early for a good parking place.
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It’s fundraising time for Kentucky Educational Television. (At least two oxymorons?) This means they are rolling out the concert and special event programming.
I am captivated by the Celtic Woman group. I’ve watched bits and pieces of the concert the past few evenings (they always lose me during the pitch [...]
Number of comments: 0 The frost covered the fields across from our house as we pulled out the driveway just past dawn. The mostly-full moon shined bright in the pale morning sky. I turned the stereo on and "A Whiter Shade Of Pale," by Procol Harum filled the air. I sipped coffee from a [...]
As always the payoff for this cheesy vid is right at the end. It’s 49 seconds, but worth it.
Totally. Recto Verso is a method of printing, primarily banknotes. This certainly has a money shot (not in the NSFW sense.)
Of course La Mode, is “with ice cream.” This video [...]
Arius, an influential preacher in the bustling Egyptian city of Alexandria, had trouble understanding Christ. He had learned about Christ from Lucian the presbyter of Antioch, the Apostle Paul’s hometown. Arius struggled with the incarnation, Christ coming to earth. Would God truly descend and become a man? Is that even [...]
The Lighting of the Square is one of Bowling Green, Kentucky's most fun events.
This month is chock full of free and cheap events. Try the links to the right (scroll down to about the middle of...
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Sometimes we all need a little reminder, if you need a remind of things to not do, then watch, “The Don’t Song” by clicking here. Today by way of review I want to look at the previous three legs of our marriage and then look to the fourth. The [...]
Forgiveness is a lesson we never fully learn, even though we try to teach it to our children. It smooths over the rough spots and enables us to move forward. Grace is the grease that keeps marriages running. Maybe as we have trekked through this series these last four weeks [...]
Number of comments: 2 I’ve had a migraine for the last few days. I think it faintly began sometime over the weekend after several nights of inadequte sleep. It didn’t become terrible until late yesterday morning while I was at work. Early in the day I began to recognize that familiar smoldering, prodding feeling [...]
Are you getting your present wrapping done? I usually do it at the last minute. I am trying to get it done early. I originally wanted to do that by last weekend. I try hard, but wind up...
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I’m looking for any series ideas that members of Bowling Green Christian Church or the greater Bowling Green community might want to hear. Any thoughts? If so post them as comments here and I’ll take them into consideration as we work on 2010’s line up. Our theme will be “The [...]
I’m not a huge viewer of Vlogs because nobody in my RSS uses Vlogs. I suspect a lot of us have experimented with posting a video of us being our charming and witty selves, but 1. only had the guts to do one try and 2. were shocked [...]
I spent all day Sunday opening one of my birthday presents, a new CD:Â Steve Martin’s new album “The Crow, New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.” It was a birthday gift from Bulbous and St. Todd DeCubville and I love it. Even though I haven’t heard all the tunes.
Haven’t had anything to say (or the time to say it) in awhile, but sometimes life just hands you a gift.
Today, I got a comment on a post from April 5, a post which contained only pictures of my neighbors’ house being torn apart by fire. The comment? Read [...]
Number of comments: 5 I've been thinking about that question a lot lately.
Why do I blog?
I've always said that I was thinking out loud, more or less. That I was putting my thoughts and ideas into words to better understand them and work through them. I wanted to hear feedback [...]
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any” (I Corinthians 6:12).
Christians are saved by the grace of God, not by works of righteousness. Therefore, in a sense, they [...]
"For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified through the Word of God and prayer." ~ Timothy 4:4-5
It’s hard to find good reliable trustworthy Christian thoughts on sex. Too many preachers and churches have exploited it for publicity (visit alittleleaven.com for examples). As I prepared for the FIREPROOF series I was fortunate to stumble across two great sermons. The first is by Erwin McManus of [...]
Number of comments: 2 I went to New York City last week. To say it was "great" is not good enough. Just not good enough. It was simply terrific. The city makes you feel so alive and there's so much to experience. So I have stories and photos to share, but life is busy' [...]
I went online to find who was offering free Thanksgiving dinners to those who needed them.
There are the usual places I think of when I think about meals for the needy. One...
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The Upajjhatthana Sutta
Five Remembrances (from my friend G.)
I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill health. there is no way to...
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Today is hubby’s birthday! It was always a story that was told every Thanksgiving, that his father picked a dandelion on hubby’s birthday. Now, dandelions are not real prevalent in Michigan in late November.
Since we’ve moved a tad south of there, thank God!, it’s the red bud that is blooming.
Gotta love [...]
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart” (Ephesians 4:18).
It is a tragedy for a person to have blinded eyes, but infinitely worse to have a blinded [...]
As Jenny and I searched for a new house we knew that we had to have one thing: a fireplace. We have always lived in a home with a fireplace, except at our last rental and it was horrible. I love fire, I love watching fire, I could watch it [...]
Number of comments: 1 I’ve missed my blog just a little bit the las t few days. But just a little bit. Enough to feel like I wanted to come here and say something. I’m not sure what, though. Hmmmm. Let's try this... I’ve been reminded, lately, of how good [...]
We don’t understand covenants, we think they’re like contracts. Honestly the most close modern day relationship we have to covenants is joining the military. It’s easier to be divorced than leave the service. Today, I want to explore what God has in mind when he talks about covenant.
From the people who charge you 8.9% to count your loose change comes the best deal you will see this year.
Take your coins to Coinstar, select that you want to redeem your coins for a certificate from a participating retailer, and Coinstar will send you a $10 rebate.
“He was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, He came, if haply He might find any thing thereon: and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man [...]
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).
“Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled” (Hebrews 12:15).
Bitterness and a bitter spirit should never characterize a person who has experienced the saving grace [...]
Number of comments: 1 The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 thriller film about the Tsavo man-eaters, two lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in 1898, killing about 35 of them, and the subsequent hunt to kill them.
These lions were so quick and ferocious that every attempt to kill [...]
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).
Prior to salvation, we are called “aliens . . . and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians [...]
“Unfriend” is the word of the year, as declared by the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Congressional correspondent Luke Russert (and son of St. Timothy of Buffalo)Â corrected the “Unfriend” report saying, “the kids say ‘Defriend.’ Oxford Dictionary should find that out.”
While I will not be buying your book, my dear Sarah, I would like to extend an invitation to you to join our Bunco group sometime! I know you’d love it….but better yet, you will fit right in!
It’s a bunch of zany gals that don’t have to have a reason [...]
This would make a utterly fascinating bar chart or pie chart or simple graph. Alas, I am incapable of making such a graph using OpenOffice. I used to be a whiz at making such things using Microsoft Excel.
But I use Excel so little, I let the license lapse and [...]
For people who are experts and not:
Get up early tomorrow (maybe 4:00 a.m.?) to see the Leonid Meteor Shower. For better time suggestions, read the articles below this one. Of course, you...
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Kentucky’s Department of Children Family Services claims that more than 500 young adults over the age of 18 are released from the state’s sponsored foster care system annually. This number sours into the thousands when the undocumented cases of emancipated young adults wandering our [...]
Not being a jock (or a geek) in high school or college, I always love it when the jocks end up looking stupider than a bag of rocks. Nice hands dumbass. Love the ref’s look of pride!
Yeah, it’s not enough to have the idea early, one must follow-up and do the work to make a million bucks off an idea.
I’ve been cracking wise about my first mis-reading of Sarah Palin’s Book Going Rogue as Going Rouge.
This article idea is from the Sophie Maddox site. I went there today and really liked this blog posting. It was about taking CLEP exams. I think CLEP might mean College Level Examination Program.
The Early Show’s vet/animal correspondent Debbye Turner Bell gets splashed by a beaver. I don’t see any dams nearby, so I’m guessing this was an “early go” on an Early Show Beaver, by an Early Show beaver.
Here are sore interesting Twitter postings to read. It's been awhile since I posted these, which I collect any time I see them. To me, being on Twitter means not only finding great sites to visit,...
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This posting is for my readers who do not go on Twitter. I have a page there for nontraditional students. It is at this address: @nontrads (click to go there). I post websites, links, newsgroups, quotations, and more there for nontraditional students, who are going back to school after [...]
This posting contains fun, free, or cheap events and things to do in November in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The sources are listed after most postings and/or at the bottom of the...
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I’m still rehabilitating my knee. Rather, tiny Mary Anne is trying to do chinups hanging from my calf while I lay on my back.
Imagine: they actually want the knee to bend!
Dur.
It bent before the Total Knee Replacement (ta-da-dummmmmmmm).
As a matter of fact, it bent better and with [...]
Number of comments: 17 John Piper is obviously a smart guy. He's much smarter than me, to say the least. He's a good writer and a passionate speaker. I have no doubt that he sincerely believes that the things he says, does, and teaches are Biblically correct. Because he thinks his view on Christianity [...]
CBS announced that the tweets from Justin Halpern’s “father” which he puts on Twitter as ShitMyDadSays has gotten a huge offer from CBS to be a sitcom. Since young (29) Halpern is a senior editor at Maxim.com and says he lives at home and ShitMyDadSays only has about 80 [...]
Number of comments: 1 At least that’s how I like to think of it!
Things have been testy around the house since the bionic man got a new knee. Seems like we’ve had lots of repairmen, which ultimately leads to lots of barking. Derby, our found on the streets of Nashville dog, absolutely cannot help [...]
Number of comments: 0 I just got an invite for one of those damn Facebook “Causes”. First off, I’ve never accepted one of those…ever…and I probably never will, either. Secondly, this cause was to join the petition against Facebook becoming a paysite.
I’ve seen the hubbub before concerning paying for Facebook, and I’m [...]
Doc, my friend who is fifty-three had a heart attack last Friday. He has a very important job working to keep up mental health among the troops stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. This keeps him away from home during the week, so he has an apartment near the base.
Earlier, 3:20 a.m., to be exact, I started writing this uproariously funny blog post (in my head.) It had it all, a bit of mystique, wonder, fascination wrapped with tons of clever repartee.
Links? I had dozens of them. This would bring dozens and dozens, perhaps even hundreds of new [...]
We live near an interstate and often jump on exit 26 near our house and run down to exit 24 to avoid low-speed traffic. We also like to go to Nashvegas fairly often on the interstate.
And you have wondered the same thing when you are sharing the road with the [...]
The Star of Bethlehem
This annual show at the Hardin Planetarium in Bowling Green, Kentucky will be shown Thursday, Dec. 10th at 7:00.
This...
Here are some songs I've been listening to lately.
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Fashion for the older student on the high school, trade school, or college campus.
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- I Only Miss Blizzard Snow Because of the Drifting (1)
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