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I tend to be dense, sometimes.
Over the last two years, at least, I’ve noticed a theme in God’s work in my life. A lesson, as it were, He spends all year drumming in to my head. And usually it takes a while for me to notice I’m still in class, as it were.
Last year, it [...]

Originally posted January 24th, 2006. Written while in Italy a few weeks earlier.
I’m writing this on a notepad while on a train speeding across Italy. While passing through the Formia station a few Americans got off the train and stood for some moments on the platform before moving off to their destination. I’d spotted and [...]

Originally posted from Italy on December 29th, 2006.
After only two days in country, my initial reactions to Italy, are that it’s a country living in and devoted to the past. There seems to be little industry besides tourism in many places. Though this is definitely colored by my being a tourist, duh. But consider Venice, [...]

A Flag for our fathers, a Flag of our own.
Flies over our land, and guards our home.
For freedom it flies, foundations of stone
It never will fall, this Flag of our own
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On this flag day, do not forget either the God who gave us this land, or the men and women, our mothers and [...]

Besides the wife of our own JPennStarr (though she is welcome to try and answer) does anybody read Latin any more?
Quick quiz: What does the new tag line (under the I, Pandora title) say? In English.
Rules: you cannot look online. You cannot type the phrase into Google. You CAN dredge through your minds depths and [...]

I am a geek, I enjoy computers and nearly all things related to computers. I enjoy playing computer games. I own a Nintendo Gamecube and I intend to purchase a Wii before too much longer (after I pay off Italy, save a little, and purchase the projector). I find games stimulating, social, and relaxing. I prefer [...]

The purpose of I, Pandora is to serve as a portal to the thoughts of myself and others regarding life and all it entails. There are no subjects that are not allowed to be discussed here, so long as the discussion has purpose. Primarily from a traditionally conservative perspective, I intend to bring on other [...]

Are we trying to win peoples’ hearts and minds or are we freeing them from terror? Hugh Hewitt at Townhall.com has written regarding the failure of our leaders to lead to victory in the War on Terror.
With my english language news limited to CNN World and BBC World these weeks in Italy, I must report [...]