Monthly Archives: March 2011

In A Sepulchre There By The Sea

Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe, is my favorite poem ever written, at least so far in my life.  It’s moving and touching and horribly sad and not only is it beautiful to listen to, the words are so carefully chosen as to make certain that each on its own is beautiful as well.  It &hellip Continue reading »

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The Four Criteria For Life

So I’m doing biology.  It could certainly be more interesting.  But hey!  I could be doing chemistry, right?  So I’ve started my Apologia text book so very many times and every time I get a few modules into it, something happens that I have to take a bit of time off of it, and then &hellip Continue reading »

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“Here they talked of Revolution…”

I have always loved certain pockets of history.  For a time it was the American Civil War that I found fascinating, possibly due at least in part to my love for Honest Abe, and then it was the Greeks.  I never got into the Romans or the Egyptians very much, or the Etruscans or all &hellip Continue reading »

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