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July 2014

July 05, 2014

Just So Stories

This was first posted in April of 2005. And it's all true. I've reviewed Kipling's...

May 2014

May 24, 2014

A Voyage to Mars, by Sea-Plane

In December of 2004, scientists from the Hawaii Underwater Research Lab discovered the sunken hulk...

May 17, 2014

Good Advice: Just Say Yes

The original of this post first appeared in February, 2005. As the title says, "Just...

May 10, 2014

Stood Up For A Fish

This was first posted in November of 2004. I suppose I've been stood up a...

May 03, 2014

A Question of Values

This was first posted in October of 2004, about events that occurred around 1980. When...

April 2014

April 12, 2014

How Not To Write A Best-Selling Fantasy Novel

This post was written in September of 2004, relative to a blog post about how...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

What Is Christian Fantasy?

This post was first written in May of 2004. I think it holds up pretty...

March 22, 2014

Review: The Complete Peanuts, 1950 to 1952

This review was first posted in May of 2004. The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (Vol. 1)...

March 15, 2014

Jeeves and the Nameless Ichor

Back in May of 2004 I heard of a Wodehouse/Lovecraft mash-up called Scream For Jeeves,...

March 08, 2014

Review: Bugsy Malone

This review was first posted in April of 2004, on my old blog. I've made...

March 01, 2014

The Compassion of Telling the Truth

This post first appeared in slightly different form in April of 2004. Since then, the...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Review: On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee

This was first posted in March of 2004. As I've hinted upon occasion, our favorite...

February 15, 2014

The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis on Natural Law

If you're like me, you've participated in dozens if not hundreds of bull-sessions, electronic or...

February 08, 2014

Writing Words vs. Writing Fiction

The core of this post was written in March of 2004 in response to a...

February 01, 2014

The Old Man In the Hat Comes Back

This is an old Dr. Seuss/Lord of the Rings spoof I wrote about ten years...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

Mental Health and Holiness are Two Different Things

This post first appeared in February of 2004. It's a review of a forgettable book;...

January 18, 2014

Time: Quantity Has A Quality All Its Own

This was first posted in January of 2004. I've got three kids (soon to be...

January 11, 2014

My Life with the Lord of the Rings

This was first posted in January of 2004. I first read The Lord of the...

January 04, 2014

On Diplomacy

This was first posted in December of 2003. As Christians, Jane and I are a...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

The Dread House of Lego

This was first posted in December of 2003. Whilst out and about with my two...

December 21, 2013

Disney Hall

In 2003, Jane and I went to hear a concert at Disney Hall in Los...

December 14, 2013

Support Your Local Sheriff

This post first appeared in October of 2003. One of my favorite movies of all...

December 07, 2013

Art by Accident

This was first posted in September of 2003. And if you haven't read Chuck Jones'...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

On the Purity of the English Language

While looking through my old blog posts for this week's blast from the past, I...

November 23, 2013

The Pernicious Effect of Corned Beef Hash

This was originally posted in June of 2003. The other night we were having dinner,...

November 16, 2013

What Not To Read on a Fourteen Hour Flight

I wrote this review of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in March of 2013. Reading this...

November 09, 2013

On Puttering

This piece was first posted in February of 2003. I've been working myself pretty hard...

November 02, 2013

Limericks

This was posted to my old blog in February of 2003. I was reciting limericks...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

City of the Beasts

A rare negative book review from January, 2003, of Isabel Allende's City of the Beasts....

October 19, 2013

Politeness in All Things

A slice of life from when my sons were eleven years younger than they are...