December 10

Much of today was spent staring at this screen and writing articles for what you see above. These are my last four weeklies for December, though, because we’re taking the last two weeks off (yay!). I was given two articles for the print mags this month and I stacked those in between tea wallets and [...]

Free God’s World News Mags

I’ve given away copies of God’s World News here before, but only a couple of you actually got a copy out of those deals. This month, all four of the issues are digital and can be downloaded completely free by every single one of you!
Be sure to check it out! It’s a great resource for [...]

Bloggy Giveaway Week: God’s World News Subscription

It’s that time of the year again: The Quarterly Bloggy Giveaway Week.

I write an online column for God’s World News, a current events news magazine for kids that provides commentary on current news from a biblical perspective. There are a lot of great resources available on the God’s World News website, but even more important [...]

Winners!

I almost forgot – I offered a giveaway this week and said I would choose a name on Friday. Looks like I made it just in time.
The random number genie spoke and, amazingly, it arranged things pretty perfectly as you will soon see.
The first number in the list was 11, Jess. She said [...]

Free God’s World News Magazines!

This month I received extra copies of my God’s World News subscriptions for the purpose of giving them to someone else. I thought it would be fun to offer them as a giveaway here. These are hard copies of all four of the current, September 2008 editions of the God’s World News magazines. These mags [...]

Bloggy Year in Review, 2007

I did this in 2005, but forgot last year. I was just copying over old blog posts from my old version of Half Pint House and found the 2005 post, and it made me want to do it again this year. So, here is my 2007 bloggy year in review:

January: Speaking of that Reset Button…
February: [...]

Three Months in Review

I thought it would be fun to string everyone along for three months, talk all about how hard I’m working, how late I’m staying up, and how crazy our life has been, but not really tell you why. For those just tuning in, I was a contract researcher for God’s World Publications for just over [...]

I’m Doing It Again

Roaming. It’s 11:52 pm and I couldn’t fall asleep. For some weird reason I continue to think about the project. And think, and think, and think, and think. And I’m still nervous about it. I don’t know why.
So here I am, mindlessly surfing. Because it’s too late to do anything productive in the house and [...]

December 3

I didn’t take it (obviously) but it’s appropriate for today. From left to right, Joel Belz, me, Nick Eicher, Kevin Martin, Rich Bishop, and three months of my life.

Watch as the Exhaustion Sets In

Lucille Krunklehorn: It’s my pleasure, Mr. Willerstein. Hey, you never know, one of your students may invent the next integrated circuit, or microprocessor, or integrated circuit. Oh wait, I said that already. Well, I just don’t get out of the lab very much. Is that a bowtie? I like bowties. I haven’t slept in eight [...]

I’m Projecting

Project due Monday night; working like a crazy fool today, knowing my mind is on the fritz when I actually labeled three categories within our report this way: Education, Either/Or; Education, Kickin’ It Old School; and Education for my Home Boy (and Girl).
I have a feeling my editor is going to have a thing or [...]

Learning…

…to neither question my salvation nor my call to homeschool during a week when I 1) have a major project due, 2) have a major head cold, and 3) started back up on Weight Watchers again.
It’s just not a good idea.

Home Stretch

We just returned home from what could possibly be the last place in America where you can leave your purse with all pertinent forms of identification, all your grocery and gasoline money for the next three weeks, and your new-to-you Nano iPod in your unlocked van with your husband’s keys still in the ignition for [...]

I’m Weird Like That

I have this strange habit in which I stay up late to complete a project and, once completed (and though I’m super-tired), I mindlessly roam the Internet for something. I go back and forth between Bloglines, Facebook, blog stats, Amazon, Google News, and email – you know, all the really important, riveting stuff. Because that’s [...]

Remember This?

I just posted a new question on How Kids Think – it’s been a while, but I’d love your thoughts…