If everything goes according to plan, by this time next week Daily Breadcrumbs will have reached the end of Deuteronomy, the last book of the Pentateuch. To do this, I have written 75 long essays and nearly 140 "breadcrumbs." In total, I estimate I have somewhere on the order of 88,000 words written for this project so far. For those who are ( Read more... )

Today, a very kind friend of mine is using me as a guinea pig to test-drive a series of one-on-one photography tutoring tutorials. I'm very much looking forward to it. Yay, learning how to take pictures ( Read more... )

As a public service reminder, please note that even though I'm no longer posting individual topics every day, I'm still posting a new entry on Daily Breadcrumbs, well, daily ( Read more... )

Two days? My goodness -- you all must think I've vanished off the face of the earth or been eaten by wombats!

Ok... maybe not. I've had a relatively uneventful few days, so behind the cut are just a few random thoughts and ramblings.

( A baker's dozen of complete randomosity )

I'm doing a bit of advance reading for Daily Breadcrumbs, so that I'm not caught in another unplanned hiatus. I just finished doing the readings I will use for Friday's essay. It turns out there's a talking donkey in them. Yes, a talking donkey. Just in time for the release of Shrek 3 ( Read more... )

Yesterday's essay on Daily Breadcrumbs was about yet another incident of the Israelites complaining. Today's Breadcrumb is about the concept of sheol, or the Jewish afterlife ( Read more... )

Today's breadcrumb is about clothing laws ( Read more... )

After an unplanned week-and-a-half-long hiatus, Daily Breadcrumbs is back. Again. You thought you could escape, but you were wrong. Yesterday's essay was about yet another case of the Israelites complaining and God's response to them. Today's breadcrumb is about a case of what seems like unfair justice.

Yesterday's breadcrumb was about whether the Israelites were really lost for 40 years in the desert. Today's breadcrumb traces a link between modern media tactics and the ancient Israelites ( Read more... )

Today's essay on Daily Breadcrumbs is about a bad case of God overreacting ( Read more... )