Monthly Archives: December 2011

Haiti Christmas memory

Posted on December 25, 2011 by maradanto

My favorite Christmas memory comes from a staff party at the school I taught at in Haiti. It was December 1993, and I was more than two thousand miles from home, in a land where most December temperatures were around … Continue reading →

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Voyage to the Planets

Posted on December 21, 2011 by maradanto

Can anyone recommend any good sci-fi stories set on other planets in our solar system? Evangeline has cooked up a 14-week homeschooling project on the solar system. In addition to the science research she’s doing, we’re trying to make this … Continue reading →

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The decline in Christmas carols

Posted on December 15, 2011 by maradanto

Thinking today about “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” Not the best melody, I’ll admit, but it still beats the socks off most of the newer Christmas songs that get trotted out at churches these days in our bid to be … Continue reading →

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It really is a small world

Posted on December 12, 2011 by maradanto

I took Oldest Daughter to play rehearsal tonight. The stage manager and I took turns staring at one another, trying to figure out where we knew each other from. Small world. Turns out she’s a fellow Price, from the Class … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry’s bigotry problem

Posted on December 8, 2011 by maradanto

If I were a Republican, right now Rick Perry would be making me nostalgic for the good old days under President Bush. In Iowa, I think it’s something like 60 percent of registered Republicans bill themselves as evangelicals. Perry’s campaign … Continue reading →

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Tony Perkins Doesn’t Get It

Posted on December 6, 2011 by maradanto

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council believes that Jesus would support the free market rather than Occupy Wall Street. (Source: His op-ed at CNN.) To each his own, but my principal reaction upon reading this is that Perkins is falling … Continue reading →

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Becoming flesh: a monologue

Posted on December 4, 2011 by maradanto

On stage we see a woman, reading a book, playing Solitaire or engaged in some other solitary activity. During the following monologue, she may get up and move about the stage, or continue to sit still, engaged in her activity, … Continue reading →

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