Came across this information in a tea catalog I get. I thought it was worth knowing that there’s an easy way to remove a lot of the caffeine from any tea without impacting the flavor. I plan on giving it a try. Not today, maybe, because today I need that caffeine, but … sometime.

Teas and […]

Nothing so moves a sinner to repentance as eternity.
– St. Tikhon of Zadonsk 

From today’s “Daily Lives,” this from St. Herman of Alaska:
Should we not above everything else love God, more than everything else desire Him and seek Him? I, a sinner, for more than forty years have been learning how to love God, and I cannot say that I love Him completely! How should we love God? […]

I feel like I’ve had a lot of quotes lately about our sinful tendencies, so I thought the one I read in today’s “Daily Lives” might provide some much-needed perspective.
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. Just as […]

When I finished looking at e-mail this morning, I decided to put the computer into Sleep mode, and it asked me a funny question: Are you sure you want to sleep?
Boy, am I. I was up till 1:30 this morning finishing one project and I’ll likely be up later than that tonight. Yes, I’m sure […]

Saturday morning Clementine the dog was being a little restless, so I sat down on her loveseat to see if a little focused affection would calm her down. This loveseat is a piece of rented furniture that we’ve long-since bought and paid for, which is a little galling, since it’s such an ugly thing. It’s […]

Greg sent me an e-mail with a YouTube link and commented, “This is so cute, it’ll make your head explode.” He’s right. That about sums it up.

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But lest you think the animal kingdom has nothing to do but float around being cute, consider the implications of … Drama Lemur!

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Honestly, YouTube could be such a great […]

This present life is not a jest nor a plaything, although men have turned it into a jest and a plaything. They heedlessly play with time, given for preparation for eternity; they play with idle words. They assemble at their friends’, sit and talk idly, and then begin to play at something. They go to […]

After Pascha, I managed to find some time to get around the Ortho-blogosphere a little and came across this post of Jan’s that I really liked. Then in the past week, my work schedule has suddenly exploded and I haven’t had much time to do anything. Well, that’s a story for another blog-post. In the […]