Politics - the consequential competition over valued things. The real question is not whether Jim Webb will run for reelection. The real question is whether Jim Webb will run for president in 2012. The real opportunity for a primary challenge to President Obama comes not from the left but the center. It can always get worse.

Is French for, well, a travelogue would probably be the most appropriate expression in English.

Monday, July 2, 2012. We have added only a few other plants while working on larger projects; namely removing a couple hundred cement pieces that had once formed raised planters within which, at that point, only dirt and dreams of a thriving garden did dwell. We have planted the small pine trees from our last two Christmases, some climbing vines, and a few Mexican sunflowers. The sunflowers were the first plant I have successfully grown from seed! We should really paint the deck first.

The life and times of a Valid Paradox. I want to go to Alaska to see the aurora borealis,. I want to go to Oregon to feel the Oregon vortex,. I want to go to Spain to experience La Tomatina,. I want to go to Sweden and stay in an ice hotel,. I want to go to Hawaii to view an active lava flow,. I want to go to Italy to float through the Blue Grotto,. I want to go to England and touch the rocks at Stonehenge,. I want to go to Mexico to tour the Naica Giant Crystal Caves,.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. Choosing to not follow the crowd is difficult. How do I, a single, professional, Christian woman glorify God best in my daily life? August 26, 2014.