In order of publication from most recent:
- A liberal scold reads to children and makes them sad.
- The permaculture principle of “stacking functions” (plus a tree farm recommendation)
- Social Justice Warriors, small towns, and Trump rallies…let’s talk about my poultry instead.
- USDA propaganda then and now.
- Women can be hard-working and innovative in their proper sphere.
- Grow Your Own: helpful tools for getting your vegetable garden seeds started.
- I had no idea he was The Duck @jokeocracy.
- Why I am deeply grateful to feminists.
- Snow day
- Preparing for Spring: sowing seeds, preparing for poultry, and dissuading dogs.
- A cozy Saturday night.
- There is no god but democracy and the Founding Fathers are its prophets.
- Sheryl Sandberg, billionaire slave driver.
- Dealing with a slippery gravel driveway in winter, an update.
- First garden order of the year: fruit trees and shrubs.
- Why should she obey God if her husband still acts like a jerk.
- False freedom is why we are miserable.
- The kind of help we all can do without.
- Is the problem a lack of listening or a lack of submitting?
- Wishing you a Happy New Year.
- Just shut up and listen.
- Listening to the wind and counting blessings
- What I’ve been up to.
- Jiffy Mix: capitalism does not HAVE TO be predatory or anti-family.
- And so you see, Mom, that’s why I don’t vote.
- “You can do what you want”: transplantism instead of tradition and friends instead of family.
- Thankful for the blood.
- Hey feminists, I know you are but what am I?
- About those safe space circles.
- The chance to be human: homesteading while working full time.
- Reusing everything (old roofing shingles, pallets, sewing machines, magazine racks, and more!)
- Fall colors and God’s word – a good end to a Monday
- The Worst Mother-in-Law
- When Daddy gets home.
- God never made an ugly landscape.
- When you’re dying inside, remember you’re not actually dying.
- Apples from Lesser Farms!
- Start with respecting him in public.
- Autumn doings
- The ugly stepsisters in the Overton Window
- What would it look like for Christians to honor husbands and fathers?
- Making lacto-fermented pickles.
- Unease.
- At last there is a way to solve that pesky overpopulation problem!
- A good way to grow herbs and a recipe for lamb burgers.
- Life-long marriage is a gift you give your children.
- Whatever is lovely.
- Godly sorrow versus shame.
- Diversity or your head: apparently you can’t have both.
- “Biblical Submission is Not Passivity”
- Do pastors tear down men on Father’s Day?
- The newest members of the clan.
- My first food forest guild.
- A quick update and a few random observations about Chicago
- Why so many people are confused about marital roles.
- A campfire and a conversation with God about grass.
- Plant your garden, grow your family, and pray.
- His joy comes in the morning.
- Domination is not destruction.
- University of Texas at Austin can help you with your “problematic” thoughts.
- Environmentally-friendly pond maintenance.
- Working and gardening and worn out.
- On women’s role in preparedness.
- The gift of wild food plants.
- The shame of victory, the social appropriateness of defeat.
- Should college girls wait to get married until they graduate.
- No-waste tree planting.
- Helpless.
- Home gardening for town children, 1919.
- What is the “extreme right”? What are liberals? This is why all political discussions sound like teenage gossip.
- Conservatives should stop pretending there is such a thing as “freedom of speech”.
- Redeeming the dirt.
- Going batty.
- A comment on men protecting women by discouraging temptation.
- Seedy doings.
- Oh dear, oh deer.
- Know that you are happy.
- He is risen and He will come again.
- Thoughts on permaculture from the Cultured Home.
- Pretty chicks.
- Skills are best learned before you need them and patience is a skill.
- Country mouse is not a city mouse.
- What is needed is healthy families and communities, not looser women.
- Conservative Christians and permaculture: separating the wheat from the chaff.
- Gammas and shrews really aren’t all that humorous.
- Capitalism should serve humanity, not rule us.
- Conservative Christians and the International Day of Forests: separating the wheat from the chaff.
- Hello Barbie bothers me, but not because she’s a potential corporate spy.
- My first attempt at making maple syrup.
- Immodesty in athletic dress is the result of an unrestricted capitalist economy.
- The word of the day is “costochondritis.
- The destructiveness of Beyonce-N-Taylor feminism.
- More liberal incoherence: open carrying and men in the women’s locker room edition.
- Don’t Ignore Warning Signs.
- Pastries for the Lovelorn.
- Should grade-school aged children be allowed to walk home from the park without an adult.
- Tapping my first sugar maple tree.
- What if they threw a feminist art exhibit and nobody came?
- Despite the pressure to complain to complain, there is a way we can be joyful.
- Sour self-denial versus joyful penitence.
- The extreme materialism of liberals.
- Musings on free-range parenting, comfort-addicted kids, and underdeveloped gross motor skills.
- Lessons learned from a disaster that could have been worse.
- On gardens and gratitude.
- Time for some goat-based humor.
- Prayer for the 21 Coptic Christian martyrs.
- HOW the news is presented is as important as WHAT is presented.
- How to fix a slippery driveway hill without damaging the environment.
- They see us as something to be busted.
- Do “helper incomes” increase fertility?
- But is it art?
- The primal desire to stick with one’s own.
- Not all millennials are like that: hopeful signs among high schoolers.
- Flashy illusion versus family formation.
- Too many ditches and wetlands.
- The theory of feminist devolution, BBC Edition.
- A few pictures from the aftermath of the great storm.
- Blizzards and Brunch
- “…the boundary between the civilized world and our worst selves is just an illusion.”
- Prudently Prepared and UnPanicked
- Sensible precautions for single young men and women who want to protect their futures.
- Should improving access to daycare be a national priority?
- Millennials: childless, indentured to student loans for life, and all for nothing.
- Winter daydreaming about spring planting.
- When it comes to urban farming and renewal, “left” and “right” are mostly useless political terms.
- Good career choices for the family-minded girl.
- Christian women should be helpers, not careerists.
- Sunshine Peppermint Sugar Cocoa Brownies: a recipe for using up your leftover Christmas candy canes
- Weeknight Dinner Recipe: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork
- They would if they could: new study reports that nearly one-third of college men would rape if they could get away with it, and feminist policies again fail to help real women.
- Of snot and skates…
- Anatomy of an illicit seduction (Into the Woods, Lesson 3)
- Blindness is in the eye of the beholder.
- Ann Arbor will not help Ypsilanti at all by building low-income housing units.
- Honey, pack up the kids and let’s go see some Michigan history! State Historical Commission declares the birthplace of 1960s radical movement “official historical site”.
- Another example of feminism failing to help real women, public breastfeeding edition.
- Wind chills and musicals.
- Adventures in turning our pond into an ice skating rink.
- The decline of women artists under feminism.
- Sunday Dinner: A very simple roast chicken recipe for the novice cook.
- The just desserts for a woman who takes a Baker for bread and a Prince for “whatever” (Into the woods, Lesson 2)
- “Though scary is exciting, nice is different than good.” (Into the Woods, Lesson 1)
- 2015 New Year’s Resolutions
- Lessons from “Into the Woods” – an introduction
- The decline of the gens and familia: we want to live together but we just can’t get along.
- Feminist New Year’s Resolutions – strangely they never include anything about caring for their families.
- The importance of placing kith and kin above buying and brands.
- Christmas Conversations: horrifying scotch and industrial accidents edition.
- Christmas: a time to remember the Nativity and celebrate our traditions.
- Feminist Grinches turn the holidays ugly.
- “She’s not really the cooking type.” (Also: A simple recipe for baked chicken thighs and rice.)
- Christmas cookie recipe: Buckeyes
- “Women’s issues” are embarrassing.
- The feminist version of King Midas: everything they touch turns ugly.
- My favorite version of the Little Drummer Boy.
- The purpose of paid work for women.
- Responsibility without authority.
- If it’s really that dangerous, then only a negligent parent would allow their daughter to go there.
- That time when I thought mud was coming out of the water taps and how it caused me to devise a Home Made Hot Cocoa Mix recipe.
- Break out the good stuff
- Twas the weekend after Thanksgiving…
- The Blessing of Extended Family
- A point upon which traditionalists and anti-capitalist progressives can agree: Don’t shop on Thanksgiving.
- Signalling liberal moral superiority, homeless in Ann Arbor edition
- Men taking care of their families and communities – just another good thing about marriage and family.
- The pleasure of a quiet evening at home with family and a few thoughts on prioritizing family formation.
- A new blog to round out 2014