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Our church was founded about sixty years ago by a group of Swedish Baptists. Stoic and mostly blonde, they gathered together on the North Shore to worship God together. I’m not entirely sure that they worshiped in English at first ( Read more... )

For September 12, the DVD seems to have no articles. Since I cannot imagine that the NYT would be suddenly silent regarding the war, I assume this is an error on the part of those who assembled the DVD or a flaw in my copy of the DVD. I am annoyed.

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In 1939, of course, 9/11 had no special significance yet; it was just another day, albeit "just another day" in a context of war, with all the anxiety and pain that implies. Not yet covered in my summaries (I hope to someday go back and fill in summaries for the days I haven't summarized yet) is the fact that in the very early days of the war, ( Read more... )

Today, my goal is to see if I can find a way to make this summarizing of the day's articles actually take only a few minutes. "Problem" is, I get sucked in and start satisfying my own curiosity.

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I left the kids alone for an hour this afternoon so I could go to an appointment ( Read more... )

Brief intro: J's obsession with WWII has continued and deepened, to the point that he wants to go through the war in detail, as if he were living through it. Towards that end, we have purchased a collection of all the New York Times articles pertaining to WWII published as it was happening. The printed book goes from an account of the Treaty of ( Read more... )

Usually, R's profound questions come at bedtime (or when I'm too busy with something to answer; that happens, too). But last night, any potential for profound questions was overwhelmed by the fact that I'd left the kids alone for the evening -- D's 12 now, so that's possible, which is hugely life-changing -- and they'd watched Hook together, which ( Read more... )

D is wanting to get started with making Minecraft mods. She's starting her research just with Google, and has absolutely no coding experience. For those more in the know than I, are there any major pitfalls I should know to steer her around or things that will really help her out?

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R is often anxious about something at bedtime. I can never decide if this is because she is finally still enough for preexisting anxieties to come to the surface or if she's looking for ways to delay; certainly anxiety is a common reaction to almost any sudden thought during the day as well, but the bedtime anxieties really range far in their ( Read more... )