K's Cafe: The 30 Second Blog: Delicious Railroad

re: a train ride in France (and a fellow passenger doing daddy duty)...

Holding Short @ 33 and Bravo: Let's Get Real Monday

re: flying a plane to relax and re-energize...

hat tip: Randi

Bookworm Room : Why Johnny shouldn�t read

re: has the top question for parents with children in public schools shifted from "Why can't Johnny read?" to "Why should my child read this drek?"...

Brandywine Books

re: book design must recommend the book, etc....

Brandywine Books

re: Lars Walker was cataloging an old book, translated from German to Danish and published in 1874, and briefly imagined what it would be like to be able to go back in time and tell the book's author what the future held -- but decided he wouldn't have the heart...

Touchstone Archives: Not Harvard Bound

re: Terrence O. Moore, principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools in Fort Collins, Colorado, knows some young people who have some pretty good ideas about what's right and what's wrong with their world...

Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Knowing One's Place

re: Anthony Esolen notes (among other things) that "It seems that our entire educational system is designed to scorn the idea of the ordinary -- the idea that, in fact, we are all meant to occupy a modest place, in a family, a community, or a church, a place that is seldom of our own making. But what is wrong with the ordinary?"...

The Common Room: Knowing Your Place in a Fantastic and Wonderful World

re: celebrating ordinary people...

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bush criticises Spanish US anthem

re: a Spanish, activist remix of the US national anthem...

Joust The Facts: Gassy Emissions At The Times

re: trying to teach the New York Times about what President Bush actually proposed regarding reformulated gasoline and boutique fuels, not to mention economics...

Intent - Journal - where I'm from...

re: participating in a 'poem' meme, telling about where (and who) you come from...

The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo to Be Published by Bethany House in August

re: Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us by David Gibbs is due out in August...

f a i t h * i n * f i c t i o n

re: blog by a fiction acquisitions editor at a Christian publishing house...

New England Republican :"It ain't legal, and by God, it ain't right"

re: the movie Absence of Malice, the Wilfred Brimley character's takedown of the reporter played by Sally Fields, and today's media/CIA leaks...

hat tip: Betsy's Page

"We never say no."

re: Wesley J. Smith looks at the right-to-die movement, and its increasing promotion of suicide...

Danielle Bean: A Reader's Question

re: adjusting to motherhood...

Testosterhome: Monkeys At The Zoo

re: taking four boys on a trip to the zoo (and remembering when it was harder to take them anywhere)...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Georgia's abortion debate by Jeff Emanuel - Mar 3, 2006

re: college student/military veteran is a new columnist at Townhall.com...

Wesley J. Smith on Futile-Care Theory on National Review Online

re: when hospitals decide to stop care not because it isn't working, but because it is...

The Corner on National Review Online

re: energy consumer spending as a fraction of total personal consumption over time, etc....