Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for 2007

a fixture: HP 1012 Laser Printer

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Our HP 1012 printer occupies a shelf at the geographical center of our home, wirelessly networked to four computers spread across our three stories.

It never fails us.
(more…)

Read Full Post »

thank you with understated polish: Engraved Silver Thank You Cards

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 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 http://www.amazon.com.

In the age of email and voice mail, a hand-written note is perhaps more powerful than ever.

Crane & Co. delivers a classy, silver-on-white, engraved medium for saying ‘thank you’ that is just the thing for somebody who has done more than opened a door for you twice but less than buying you a new car.
(more…)

Read Full Post »

special relationship: Robin Doughty, The Purple Martin (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)

Posted in reseña, tagged on July 31, 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 http://www.amazon.com.

This finely produced University of Texas hardback is not your typical off-the-rack ‘What’s that bird?’ book.

What bird book do you know that begins with such picturesque scene-setting: ‘It is 6:30 a.m. in late April: a strange assortment of liquid chirps, chortles, and muffled yodels threads the dimness about to be burnished. In a nearby yaupon, a cardinal hammers bellow chinks into the still-black earth. Overhead, Purple Martins lance dawn—expressing their invisible presence through these baubles of sound that hang, as do the minstrels, in the dew-rich air.’
(more…)

Read Full Post »

man learns to write: Cross Century II Black Fountain Pen with 23 Karat Gold Plated Appointments and 23 Karat Gold Plated Nib – Medium

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 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 http://www.amazon.com.

My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this black Cross Century II with its silver-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home.

In the mix, I find that I’m discovering a new art form and means of personal expression. Always an illegible writer, the stationery and the fine pen slow me down just enough to realize that I actually *can* write. (more…)

Read Full Post »

man begins to write: Cross Century II Medalist Selectip Rolling Ball with Polished Chrome and 23 Karat Gold Plated Appointments

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 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 http://www.amazon.com.

My work demands a lot of interpersonal contact, face-to-face, over-the-phone, and written. Recently I have moved the more intimate of these communications off the electronic impersonality of email and onto quality stationery. At the same time, I’ve bought two fountain pens, my first ever, combining this polished chrome Cross Century II with its black-and-gold twin. One stays at the office and one by my writing desk here at home. (more…)

Read Full Post »

the weekly news: Golf World

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Among the constellation of golf magazines, Golf World is the one that isn’t straining to be a lifestyle magazine with golf thrown in. (more…)

Read Full Post »

power: Romans 1

Posted in missio dei, textures on July 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome is a constitutional document of Christian faith. The product of formidable passion and intellect, this theological-pastoral treatise has become the locus of a handful of doctrinal fine points that shape that faith and provide grist for the theological mill that grinds on into the present time.

By the time Paul pens this letter, he can assume that his readers are familiar with the Greek term ‘euanggelion’. Usually translated as ‘the announcement of good news’ or simply ‘good news’, the term resonates on multiple levels throughout Greco-Roman culture. Perhaps its most pertinent use as precursor to the apostle’s employment of the term is that which designates the arrival of an emperor. Paul is able to refer to ‘the good news’, suggesting that by late in the first century it had become commonplace among Christians to refer to the arrival of Jesus Christ and the proclamation of his achievements as the euanggelion par excellence. (more…)

Read Full Post »

why God made altos: Debby Boone, Be Thou my Vision. Great hymns of faith

Posted in reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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 the edge of Toomuchness, arrangements that are satisfying without being remarkable. (more…)

Read Full Post »

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 of spontaneity. (more…)

Read Full Post »

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 middle of the nation’s Heartland. We have no Midwestern roots and so accepted by default the conventional wisdom that we were coming to a bland place for the sake of a great job.

How wrong we were! (more…)

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts - Older Posts »