What mother doesn't want to hear her little boy utter these words? In a world where our boys are learning to use violence indiscriminately from TV, movies, and video games (even from 30 second trailers with violent images!), one of my biggest fears for my son was that he would learn to use violence ...

by Cheryl Rofer The very famous Sergei Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky is out in a new print. I hadn’t ever seen it, so I went last Monday night. Alexander Nevsky turned back the Teutonic Knights from Russia in their march across northern Europe. It’s a long story, a history that we in the Unit...

Search tools usually begin to display results as soon as the user is entering some characters. Some instantly display hits while others require the use of the enter key to start the search. Everything - that’s the name of the portable software that is under review - uses a different approach. ...

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  Yum.  I had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with my family.  I started taking pictures in the morning when Bobby was prepping the turkey, Worker was making decorations and pie, and Helper was designing place cards. I took this photo of the dining room table.   And this one of ...

I had the family over at my house for Thanksgiving for the first time this year. And it went really well! Usually we would go to my husband's Aunt Marie's (link to a video review she did of Stacy Poulos' latest book, Life in a Nutshell) house where she would prepare the entire feast (with some help ...

Every year about this time, I think about this. There are dozens of boxes of old files and documents and stuff ready to be shredded at the end of the year. I think it would be more fun to burn them. In fact, I'd love to have a community bonfire to dispose of all this stuff.  A celebration in th...

by Cheryl Rofer I have been remiss about my yard lately, including blogging. But last week I got out there to check things out and water; it had been a long time since we had had precipitation, although things were looking good. And I saw some very interesting things. Today I was reminded by the loc...

by Cheryl Rofer I just took my desktop in to the computer guys because it was making strange noises, and we all know that the one moving part in a computer is the hard drive. Noise equals wasted energy equals stuff going wrong. I've bought a cute little mouse that will make the laptop easier to work...

by Cheryl Rofer Now that I’ve found both the Bush administration and the arms controllers wanting in analysis and strategy, how would I propose going forward on nonproliferation? There are others with big ideas out there, like the Fab Four who proposed, in the Wall Street Journal of all places, th...