Wikipedia says about the novel Housekeeping, Housekeeping is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson. It was published in 1980, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and given the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing [...]
Back in early October of 2009, I was told explaining yourself to others can cause them to lose respect towards you. No one ever pointed that out to me before. Also back then, I finished reading Child Training Tips: What I wish I knew when my children were young by Reb Bradley. That book opened [...]
Back in January of 1995, while searching for a movie to rent in a local video rental store (before I knew about Aspergers), I prayed for God to show me what He would like me to experience watching. Minutes later, I found the movie “A Dangerous Woman” on the shelf. On the back of the [...]
The title, “Brain Games of the Invisible Gorilla among Animals in Translation,” sums up some of the major sources of information I’ve added to other bits I’ve accumulated off the internet. Brain Games is a 3-Part/3-Hour National Geographic Channel episode that’s been on television; possibly to air for the last time on the morning of [...]
Around the beginning of last December I wrote Five Quotes from Three Posts into Two Books. Since then, I’ve completed reading these two books introduced back then that include some things I said on my blog. I have also been in contact with both of those authors and am now ready to say more about [...]
This excellent book was out of print, but thankfully Footstool Publications has made it available again! God willing, this is one of those rare books that actually can change your life! At the time of this post, it was $8 from the publisher. Others were selling used copies on amazon.com between $23.95 — $108.01. This [...]
It could have been as long ago as 1997 when I first read the thought provoking article on how books affect children that I’m sharing in this post. I did a search online today to try to find out where I first found it so that I could provide the name of the author who [...]
In today’s mail, I received a signed copy of Martha Schmidtmann Dunne’s book “Wait, What Do You Mean?”: Asperger’s Tell and Show. Back in March of this year, I permitted her to quote in her book what she found on my blog. Two quotes come from the post What It’s Like Out There. The third [...]
The problem I have with reading Oswald Chambers is that he is too weak on doctrine to avoid being occasionally confusing. He was strong on exhortation upon specific areas of the Bible, but because he insufficiently makes comparisons of scripture with scripture, he can at times distort the big picture. As God says in 1 [...]
I’ve been using Vicco toothpaste for some time now and I’m absolutely in love with this stuff! I must be or else my last order for this would have been less than nineteen 200 gram tubes (i.e., 8.378 pounds) for my household (of 3)! Read more about it at Vicco’s website. I stumbled upon while [...]
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