The Eagle & Child

You may have noticed the little button at the top of my sidebar, which says “2010 CWA NOMINEE”.  It seems that a kind reader (or a couple of readers) has nominated me for the Canadian Weblog Awards in the categories of “Art & Photography” (for Photolicious) andthe sweeping-but-naturally-associated “Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy” (for this blog). What [...]

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Nearly forgot that today marks 6 years of the Eagle & Child.  I should have saved yesterday’s post for today, because I don’t have much to say. We had Madeline’s friend party today. 12 kids running around screaming for 2 hours. (Thankfully we used one of the school’s banquet rooms.) Too much.  I think that marks [...]

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I just spent way too much time creating the following line chart, which shows the relationship between how full my schedule is and how much blogging I do: As you can see, my Busy-ness to Inspiration Ratio is pretty high (or is it low? I can never remember.)  September was a productive month both in [...]

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What’s new? » It’s a slow month for blogging at The Eagle & Child. » I have very recently become a big fan of Flight of the Conchords and Flight of the Conchords (band and show with band).  It all began when a friend showed us “Business Time” on YouTube, followed by my viewing a bunch of [...]

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I was thinking of posting some church-related musings tonight–you know, something meaty, significant.  But I shan’t.  But neither shall I not blog for the rest of May, which was another option. Instead, I alert you, dear reader, that we’re off for a marathon drive to Manitoba tomorrow, where we will do some reconnaissance work on [...]

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In about an hour or so Olivia are off to Saskatoon to catch our flight to Kelowna, via Calgary.  Second time in as many months.  This time, however, we plan to explore not only Kelowna airspace, but also plan to land and make our way through the Okanagan Valley via ground transportation and sometimes by [...]

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‘I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.’ – The Fellowship of the Ring There are few things I desire more than to write–here, at least.  And yet these days I have little to say, little energy/will to say it, and, it feels, even less ability to say it.  I just don’t have [...]

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I’m going on a little trip with Olivia.   With my iPod Touch it’s much easier to use Twitter than WordPress (although there is a WordPress App that works quite well).  Because of this, I’ve set things up so that theoretically there will be a “digest” post of the day’s Tweets posted at the end of [...]

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Google Chrome is out of beta.  Gmail, which is significantly older than Chrome in internet terms, is still in beta.  (Hat tip to Brad Boydston for the observation.)  I don’t understand the “beta” stage, especially for Gmail.  Millions of people have been using it for years, is there really still a question that it works [...]

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5 years ago today I started blogging.  It was over at 20six.  My blog still exists there.   (I see the title to the last post on that blog has no less than 3 exclamation marks in it.  For shame!) I used to think that 5 years was a big deal.  I thought 5 years [...]

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