Archive for December 15th, 2008
How honest is your kid’s history textbook?
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: December 15, 2008
If you have a child of school age, and they have a textbook that takes note of “The Mayflower Compact,” will you please compare the text presented there, to the original text? Leaving off the signatures, the original (courtesy The Avalon Project at Yale) reads:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the [...]
Three tidbits from a sermon
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: December 15, 2008
Yesterday, the pastor sprinkled the sermon with a goodly number of stories, three of which I’d like to share, because I think they’re good food for thought. Recalling things verbatim not being one of my strong suits, and me being in author/editor mode these days, these aren’t exactly what the pastor said, but I hope they’re close [...]
Anonymous snowplower strikes again
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: December 15, 2008
I still haven’t figured out who our benefactor is who scrapes the snow from our sidewalk, but this morning, after I swept off the back deck and the van and was feeling the cold start to enter my bones, I headed to the front and found he or she had spared me the chilly bother [...]
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