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Chores Of Opportunity (and random acts of learning): Radical Rules
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Chores Of Opportunity (and random acts of learning). Friday, July 24, 2015. It has been nearly a month since I have begun my experiment in "Radical" living. I absolutely, 100% believe and stand by everything I wrote in Rules For Radicals. It's the carrying out this Radical Christianity that has befuddled me. All in the very nicest way possible. They still got mad. This has all got me thinking. What does God want me to do? Am I doing things with the right heart, but in the wrong way? When my friend, Broth...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 08/01/2014 - 09/01/2014
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Sunday, August 31, 2014. Eight years ago, as an excited parent of a toddler, I carefully researched and purchased some magnetic letters that would be the absolute best resource for teaching phonics. The right size, the right shape, the right letter frequency, the right color combinations. Instead of a reading lesson, we had a ten-minute meltdown over the ravages done to the game laid out on the fridge front. Apparently it wasn't phonics mater...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: Grammar Commando: Decimated
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Grammar Commando has been quiet for a while, but it doesn't mean she's gone away. Just been distracted. Also, the Grammar Commando is aware that words change meaning over time. This is understandable. Sometimes, though, it gets taken too far. Dear Queen of Carrots. Very first thing I want to say is:Thanks for this wonderful blog! In this post you again write: I have been absent for awhile. The correct English is I ...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 12/01/2014 - 01/01/2015
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Monday, December 29, 2014. The thing about chores is, they are chores. There is no system that will get around this. You can put purple stickers and happy unicorn balloons all over it and yet there is that nasty compost bucket still waiting to be taken out. One does need a system, of course, but eventually the system grows old or wearisome. The choreishness comes uppermost. Then it's time for a new system. The shine will come off. But it was ...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 09/01/2014 - 10/01/2014
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Sunday, September 28, 2014. Bad Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Anyway, we got a little behind. A lot behind. The place kept moving and the everything kept changing. (Who are these people who can actually design enough places to contain what their kids have? Have been, you see. But retrieving these items would mean sorting them out from the twenty mixed decks of old playing cards, the plastic ball mazes and pencils that don't sharpen from Oriental...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 02/01/2015 - 03/01/2015
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Thursday, February 19, 2015. QOC: You look exhausted. DOB: It's all this administrative stuff. There's so much more than I thought there would be. QOC: Well, if it's any comfort, it's not more than I thought it would be. Since I thought it would be a horrible monster that would take over our entire lives. DOB: Why didn't you tell me that? QOC: Remember how before we started I was kind of dragging my feet and not really getting excited about it?
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Sunday, November 30, 2014. One other major accomplishment of this month was hosting my first large-scale Thanksgiving. It started smallish and grew to 16, but we managed tables for everyone and I only slightly overcooked the turkey. In anticipation of the meal, I had made up a bunch of post-it notes stuck all over the windows of things that needed done. Thursday, November 13, 2014. But Duchess will be 13 before everyone else. And they'll all ...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: 07/01/2014 - 08/01/2014
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Game, and gotten halfway through rearranging his hot wheels. We're watching Crusade in the evenings, an offshoot of our all-time favorite Babylon 5. It's nice. I'm still tired. But a little less frantically tired. Sunday, July 27, 2014. Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. Than what will be (i.e. Will this criminal be a repeat offender? Friday, July 18, 2014. Too Hot To Hoot. It's been July, which means Grandpare...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: Work, work, work
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Work, work, work. Our whirlwind of travel concluded with a third trip, an overnight in Seattle in order to be part of a continuing legal education class on probates. DOB presented on how to deal with interstate issues and creditors' claims, and I got to be the example of What Not To Do in the practice skits in the afternoon. Then there has been the aftermath- the report that needs to be written that still isn't, despite ...
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots: Books Read . . . Whenever
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The Duchy of Burgundy Carrots. This is only the beginning. Sunday, May 03, 2015. Books Read . . . Whenever. So, I'm already far behind on keeping track of books for this year. And it certainly hasn't been a good time for especially deep or challenging books. But let me see what I can still remember. Idylls of the King. The Name of the Wind. The Wise Man's Fear. The Dead in their Vaulted Arches. Fortunately Flavia de Luce never disappoints. Not that it's at all relevant. I just needed to. Always my favori...