ANIMALS – Book Business — Careers — Christianity — Current Events — Education — Entertaining – Environment and Sustainability – Fitness and health — Food (Diet and Nutrition) — Food (Recipes) — Gardening — Libraries — Music — Music History — Musical Instruments — Personal Finance — Travel — Writing and Language
ANIMALS
Butterflies: quiet and inspirational beauty
In memoriam Taffy: the world’s cutest toy poodle
Woofgang and Suzy explore the fence
Book Business
The bargain book business: why the deals are so good
The Growth of the Bargain Book Business
Careers
The bachelors degree: how to start and finish it successfully
Career planning for arts and humanities graduate students
Career planning for college students
Conducting an informational interview on the way to finding a job
Who needs a college degree, and who doesn’t?
Christianity
Brotherly hatred: Jacob and Esau
The Collect as informal, even personal prayer
Finding joy through patience in suffering
For all the saints: thoughts from a Sunday school lesson taught on All Saints Day
How to be angry without sin–like Jesus
If God is love, what’s up with his wrath?
The love of God as revealed in his wrath
A meditation on the night sky and the love of God
Nobodies of the Bible: Abram
Nobodies of the Bible: Agabus, courageous New Testament prophet
Nobodies of the Bible: Amaziah, the half-hearted king
Nobodies of the Bible: Ananias of Damascus
Nobodies of the Bible: Elizabeth and the birth of Jesus
Nobodies of the Bible: Jairus, the Woman with the Hemorrhage, and Lessons in Faith
Nobodies of the Bible: Manoah and his wife, Samson’s parents
Nobodies of the Bible: Priscilla and Aquila
Nobodies of the Bible: the woman of Zarephath and biblical prosperity
Pat Robertson on the Haitian Earthquake: Truth, Error, and Distortion
The potter’s hands: a picture of grace in the Old and New Testaments
The strange case of a two-part miracle: the blind man of Bethsaida
Suffering plus patience equals–joy!
Victory by a roundabout path: the Hebrews and the Red Sea
What Satan is like: father of lies and a bully
What do you find in church? Faith or stubbornness?
What the potter teaches about God’s grace
When it makes no sense to trust God: a very unusual healing
Why are the stars falling? A look at recent celebrity scandals
You are God’s temple: how to prepare for worship
Zechariah and Mary: a Christmas study in contrasts
Current Events
How we might achieve real, bipartisan healthcare reform
The National Day of Prayer and Other Presidential Proclamations
The National Day of Prayer, the Constitution, and American Political Tradition
Pat Robertson on the Haitian Earthquake: Truth, Error, and Distortion
Why are the stars falling? A look at recent celebrity scandals
Education
The bachelors degree: how to start and finish it successfully
College life: important out-of-classroom experiences
Five steps to success in completing a college degree
Who needs a college degree, and who doesn’t?
Entertaining
Group party games: the chocolate game
Group party games: the dictionary game
Group party games: three guessing games
Party Game Ideas: The Chocolate Game
Party game ideas: the dictionary game
Party games for groups: the magazine game, spoons, the broom game
The short life of a birthday cake
ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The advantages of bamboo cutting boards
Cheap ways to green your home and lifestyle
Curbside plastic recycling and its limitations
Drive-throughs: energy, environmental, and health costs of their convenience
Free ways to green your home and lifestyle
From Garbage Dumps to Sanitary Landfills: An Overview of Waste Management Solutions
Going green at home: expensive projects that will pay you back
How going green at home can pay you back
Introducing sustainable, versatile bamboo
Introducing versatile, sustainable bamboo
Life after peak oil: a look at peak water and its lessons
Low Flow, High Velocity Shower Heads from Oxygenics
The many uses of sustainable bamboo
Microbial fuel cells: wastewater to energy
Plastic recycling by the numbers
Plastic recycling: new goods from waste plastic
Plastic recycling: potential and limitations
Practical suggestions for greening your home
Saving money on food while saving your health and the planet
Sewage: waste stream, or energy source?
Sustainable design and building: greater upfront costs and greater potential savings
Tips for greening your home
Ways to go green at home: some easy suggestions
We have met the enemy and they is us: developing a sustainable lifestyle
What does convenience cost? A look at convenience foods and waste disposal
Fitness and health
Be more active without a formal exercise plan
Beginning an aerobic exercise routine
Deep breathing technique: how to breathe deeply for better health and stress reduction
Deep breathing: reasons and technique
Fitness and exercise as a byproduct of living
Getting more exercise while you’re doing something else
Introduction to cardio exercise
Is a workout video program right for you?
Looking for weight loss solutions?
An overview of aerobic exercise
An overview of resistance training exercise
Selecting total fitness equipment for home exercise
Ten benefits of aerobic exercise
Total body fitness: choosing a workout
Turning your mind off to get a good night’s sleep
Weight loss tips for diet
Weight loss tips for exercise
Weight loss tips for shopping
Food (Diet and Nutrition)
Eating breakfast to lose weight
Grocery shopping for a healthy diet
Healthy home cooking
How to plan your eating to improve your health
Looking for weight loss solutions?
Nutrition tips: sneaking vegetables past your family
Overeating: Are Americans Addicted to Processed Foods?
Perspectives on protein and nutrition
Saving money on food while saving your health and the planet
Ten keys for healthy eating
Weight loss tips for diet
Why is healthier eating harder than overeating?
Food (Recipes)
Candy Dipped in Chocolate: A Delicious, but Temperamental Hobby
Confessions of a third-generation maker of chocolate candy
Delicious and healthy sweet potato recipes
Easy candy recipes for holiday entertaining and giving
Four generations of the best chocolate candy money can’t buy
Healthy and delicious sweet potato recipes
The joy of soups: and gravy, too
The joy of soups: easy varieties from a few basic techniques
Pancake recipe: better, more nutritious, less expensive pancakes without the mix
Gardening
Gardening in the North Carolina Piedmont with low-maintenance shrubs
Low care garden plants especially suitable for Zone 7A
How to identify low-maintenance perennials for your garden
History
Col. Elmer Ellsworth: Martyred for the love of Lincoln
A deadly detour: Lincoln’s friend becomes Civil War casualty
The death of the President’s friend: Elmer Ellsworth’s short Civil War career
Elmer Ellsworth: first Union martyr of the Civil War
First Union Casualty of the Civil War: Col. Elmer Ellsworth
The original Ferris wheel, Chicago 1893
Tributes to a fallen friend of Lincoln: Elmer Ellsworth
Libraries
Everyone does research: librarians can help
Everyone’s guide to research and sources
How libraries help the unemployed
How the unemployed find help at the library
How to take the fullest advantage of library resources
How to use the library if you’re unemployed
Online library catalogs: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Services for the unemployed at the library
Thoughts on the future of libraries
Using an online library catalog
Unemployed? Get help at the library
What do librarians do, and why does it matter?
What is a library, and why does it matter?
Why we still need libraries
WorldCat: a powerful library tool
Music
Financial Woes of American Orchestras: Part of a Solution
Music History
After the Ball: a turning point in American popular song
The beginnings of Tin Pan Alley
Classical music: the birth of an idea
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music and Its Influence
Medieval night watchmen: ancestors of the modern wind band
Moses Asch, Harry Smith, and the Anthology of American Folk Music
Niccolò Paganini: first international superstar violinist
Popular conductor Jullien: humbug or possible role model for today’s orchestras?
Popular music: the birth of an idea
Sacred Choral Music from the Former Soviet Bloc
Sacred Harp singing and shaped notes
When Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony Was New and Unfamiliar
Musical Instruments
The early history of the trombone and its development from the trumpet
History of the trombone in brief
How the trombone survived its near-death experience
New roles for an ancient instrument: the trombone since Mozart
On playing the trombone
Recital Repertoire of the Trombone as Shown by Programs Published by the International Trombone Association
Serpent, ophicleide, and bombardon: ancestors of the tuba
A Short History of the Trombone
Trombone music books: two important traditions
The Wagner tuba: new uses for an instrument you never heard of
Why the trombone almost disappeared during the seventeenth century
PERSONAL FINANCE
How to get out of debt and build wealth
The rich may be deep in debt, but not the wealthy
You can be wealthy even if you’re not rich
Travel
Sauder Village: a Living History Museum in Northwestern Ohio
Take a lighthouse vacation on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
Writing and language
Affect or effect? which to use?
Confusing vocabulary words: affect and effect
Easy ways to revise and improve your writing
FYI: LOL’s in the OED!
FYI: OED Has Called LOL a Word
Going on a “which” hunt: choosing between “that” and “which” in relative clauses
Thoughts on Alexa rankings
Three rules of English usage we’re better off without
What has happened to English’s BFF, the OED?
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