Debby Boone comes across on this CD as one classy lady, from the stunning cover photo to the lush alto with which she handles a tenspot of well-selected traditional hymns. The orchestration is what you’d expect from a member of the Boone family: expert, spare with occasional flourishes, from time to time a jostling with [...]
Archive for July, 2007
why God made altos: Debby Boone, Be Thou my Vision. Great hymns of faith
Posted in reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
not a walk in the park: Praise and Worship, Rivers of Joy, by Don Moen
Posted in reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Rivers of Joy, a live worship CD recorded in Colorado Springs and led by Don Moen, features a highly-trained Big Choir, an interesting solo or two, audience participation, and the appearance [...]
2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard
Posted in my hometown, paterfamilias on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Funny how different things look from up close. Three years ago my family and I left a sixteen-year stint in Costa Rica, a place we loved and where we believed we’d one day die and be buried. Of all places, we came to Indianapolis, a town with a reputation for dullness placed smack in the [...]
Rosie the deer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fauna on July 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Rhodesian Ridgeback, an African canine breed that was once used to hunt lions, is normally not associated with the phrase ‘like a little deer’. But Rosie, our five-year-old Ridgeback looks just like that as she sleeps, curled up on the rug she’s wrestled into just the right mound of folds and wrinkles that make [...]
Fido, come home!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fauna on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The latest entry on my technological almost-too-good-to-be-true list is a service that links would be pet-adopters with dogs and cats desperately in need of a home like theirs. Check out www.1-800-save-a-pet.com. You sign up to receive information about a specific kind of adoptable pet, say a Labrador Retriever. You also input your zip code on [...]
the house as castle: House & Garden magazine
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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. House and Garden is a big, beautiful, in-your-face collection of colors and designs for the well-heeled reader without children in diapers or other unstylish impediments to the concept of home as [...]
the big daddy: Golf Digest magazine
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Golf Digest is the big daddy of a well-populated family of golf publications. It’s self-styled tag line–’The #1 Golf Publication’–is well-earned.
pragmatic, uneven, essential: Evangelical Missions Quarterly
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. EMQ is a quarterly publication out of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center that is perhaps best described as a periodical written by and for missionaries and practitioners of Christian mission. Its [...]
I was at hand: Amadeus – Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Posted in reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Brilliantly conceived, movingly enacted, grandiose in scope, this epic fiction intertwines the life of the miserable but gifted Mozart with the envious, correct, but ultimately mediocre Antonio Salieri. The result is [...]
getting to know your backyard: Stan Tekiela, Trees of Indiana Field Guide
Posted in reseña, tagged fauna on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. These field guides are excellent resources for the novice, whether they treat of fauna like your region’s birds or flora like your trees. This is because they group each specimen visually [...]
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