Lady of Longbourn
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Not Idiocy

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We're watching Fellowship of the Ring, and between bedtimes and what not, we watched Weathertop twice. Both times, the kids I live with ...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Anxiety Deposits

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 At work this week one of the front desk staff had to call our notoriously grumpy, entitled other office to ask them to schedule an emergenc...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Settings of Christmas Etymologies

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  This year’s theme for Christmas etymologies is Settings.  To start, we have the hometown of Mary, the place Jesus grew up, Nazareth. And, ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Thoughts about Patriarchy

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  I believe God is male. I believe Adam, the first man, had a special position of responsibility toward and representation of the rest of hu...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Cantillon Effect

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Sometimes I sit a few cars back at a stoplight that has just turned green and imagine how efficient it would be if we could all trust each o...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

Contentment?

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It's been coming up a lot lately: this tension between knowing God has already given us so much more than we deserve, so to be content w...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Turn the Other Cheek

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 Some Facebook friends got me thinking about turning the other cheek this week, and whether it could possibly apply to sexual abuse. Obvious...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Beautiful Colorado Drive near Larkspur

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Once upon a time just over a year ago I was out for a drive with my brother and his wife. We were off the beaten path (not on the Interstate...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Ratios

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My friends taught me to play a board game which starts with each player dividing 100 into three categories: fame, happiness, and wealth.  Wh...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Hanabi

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There's this cooperative game called Hanabi (that I love), where, in order to play a card, you are dependent on hints other players have...
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Lisa of Longbourn
A thirty-something homeschool graduate who once promised her mother she didn't need to learn grammar because she'd never be an author is hopelessly a writer at heart. I'm a Christian who loves to ask thoughtful questions, and who finds thought-provoking material in unlikely sources. A lady in waiting, I'm the oldest of six children still living at home, pursuing the efficient acquisition of knowledge through books and practice.
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