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Monthly Archives: January 2009
$50,000 or $100,000 in Unpaid Taxes?
Take your pick. The first is now-confirmed Treasury Secretary (yes, the guy who is in charge of the IRS and Treasury for the entire nation) Tim Geithner’s tax bill that he says he forgot to pay and the second is … Continue reading
Sowing the Heirloom Seeds of Love
This year Katie and I are getting serious about our garden. Last year it was a flop, excepting the herbs, garlic, cucumber (thanks Trimborns) and okra (thanks Kingsleys). I realized that our current seed-starting method, directly sowing outside in the … Continue reading
Honey Insurance in Stimulus Package
My friend Kennon tipped me off to some pork in the stimulus package, which, if passed, I need to get in on: Honey Insurance. $150 million for something called “honey insurance,” which is described as money to “provide emergency relief … Continue reading
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Pope Benedict Continues to Knock Our Socks Off
It appears that, this time, our Holy Father is working toward unity with the Traditional Anglican Communion.–that’s 400k Anglicans, folks. What a week, with an invitation to the SPX bishops into full communion and now this! Unity within the Body … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Life, Christian unity, Pope Benedict
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Democrat Pork
The Democrats are passing their pork-barrel stimulus package giving unfathomable billions of our dollars to the most ridiculous and immoral activities. E.g. $2.7B in NIH grants which would be targeted to among other things embryonic stem cell experimentation. (Page 56) … Continue reading
We Did It, Grassroots Troops
President Obama nixed the hundreds of millions of dollars in the “stimulus” package that was intended to fund contraception for Americans. Devin reported on it earlier, here. I still feel sick inside thinking about the hundreds of millions of dollars … Continue reading
Time to Fess Up
I treat myself these days by reading farm blogs. I think about our farm all the time. I dream about looking out the kitchen window at pasture. I long for fresh milk and homemade cheese and butter and ice cream. … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Life, Family Life, Grapevines and Nature
Tagged farming, motherhood, sustainable farming
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For What I’m Grateful
Pandora music blasting Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Parchment paper chilling my shortbread dough. Arbonne RE facial products. It’s the little things that help me feel like I’m still an woman whose seen the world and received an education. I can’t leave … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Life, Family Life, Grapevines and Nature, La Musica
Tagged motherhood
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The Surplus Population
“Let those poor go to the prisons and the Union workhouses. And if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” You may be puzzling over who made this statement. Was it Scrooge or … Continue reading
Faith and Reason in Practice
I was given a daily devotional book called My Daily Bread several years ago by a friend. It has been of great help to me in growing closer to Christ, and I have read and prayed through the lessons several … Continue reading
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