My Favorite Fiction Part 6: Voyage of Plunder
17 April 2014
“There are few men in this world who can say they have seen their father die twice. God’s truth, I might be the only one.”
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17 April 2014
“There are few men in this world who can say they have seen their father die twice. God’s truth, I might be the only one.”
08 April 2014
Tatting is a very old form of lace-making that’s become somewhat rare this last century.
27 March 2014
Expressing God, not myself, is my full-time job now. Or at least it ought to be. And we creative people need to get that and own it. If we make movies, write novels, take or paint beautiful pictures for the purpose of self-expression, than we’ve grandly missed the point.
It was a cold December night when my brother dragged me to the movie theater to watch Frozen. How appropriate! I wasn’t particularly excited about it. Just one more Disney princess movie with a lot of corny songs is what I was expecting. But I came, I saw...and I really enjoyed it.
13 February 2014
I came across this book in my late teens on one of my many trips to the library. It looked interesting, so I brought it home. If I remember correctly, I read it all in about one sitting. I loved the book so much I read it to my brother. By the end, we were both in tears.
06 February 2014
All I really want to do today is normal stuff like teaching and writing and practicing violin and drinking coffee and things.