"A Judge may not trifle with the Law because the society is defective. If the law is the law of a society that some feel to be unjust, it is the law and the society that must be changed. In the meantime there is an existing law that must be administered, and it is the sacred duty of a Judge to administer it. …a Judge cannot, must not, dare not ( Read more... )

Во время Адвента все собиралась выложить нечто из того что каждый день читали по утрам. Но руки никак не доходили, т.к. доходили они в основном на написание работ. Адвент прошел, Рождество встретили дома у родителей мужа, и получилось довольно странно: в ночь перед Рождеством я хотела сходить на пред-Рождественское служение в местную церковь, но т. ( Read more... )

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and ( Read more... )

I am torn between the continents, cultures, and language. As things stand now, English comes more natural than Russian, yet it's far from being perfect. There is a yearning for expressing myself in Russian, yet I find myself at loss for words and concepts, not to mention my sad lack of practice of typing in Cyrillic. Now that I am 32, I have spent ( Read more... )

Today, I am ridiculously excited about  spending the day at home, cooking, cleaning, and making the house look good for tomorrow's Thanksgiving feast.  Part of the excitement comes from the fact that I love cooking and get to try out some new recipes. But another, huge, part comes from the fact that I rarely get to do this nowadays. Three years ago ( Read more... )

I am suddenly overcome with desire to share my favorite things. Here are some food&life blogs that I love and enjoy. They are worth looking at, even if you don't like cooking that much, but enjoy good food, photography, and good times:

The Pioneer Woman: thepioneerwoman.com/

101 Cookbooks:  101cookbooks.com/

Chez Pim: www.chezpim.com/blogs/

What a disappointment! I don’t know what I expected from this class, but whatever it was, I didn’t get it. Lectures were nothing more than very surface-level survey of the books, with the majority of them being conducted by teaching assistants (PhD students), instead of the professor. There was close to no discussion of moral formation through ( Read more... )

Today a girl at church (a teenage girl) asked me how I liked Twilight. I didn't know how to react. I know that she LOVES Twilight, thinks the wolrd of it, and thinks that Edward is the the best thing EVER.

On the other hand, I didn't like the book that much, and I said so. At that point the conversation was over - with a dissappointed "oh!" from her ( Read more... )