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Archive for November, 2014

The Simmering Mind is 3 Years Old! – Some Site Stats

Posted in For Your Amusement, My Life on November 30, 2014 | 5 Comments »

Today is a commemoration post – this blog has been here for three years as of today!  I didn’t blog faithfully in the beginning, and things petered out for awhile, but I am excited to report that since March 22, 2014 (when I began blogging weekly), the Simmering Mind has been going strong! This post […]

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Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do

Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy and Worldviews, Reviews, tagged , , , , on November 26, 2014 | 7 Comments »

A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless.  It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power.  So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]

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Confessions of a Pathetic Weakling – God’s Grace at the End of my Rope

Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, Inspiration, Motherhood, My Life, Preaching to Myself on November 22, 2014 | 4 Comments »

One day a couple of months ago, if you had walked into my home in the mid-morning, you would have found this scene: Mom dozing off on the couch, sick and dizzy with some unexplainable bug on top of my morning sickness. Toddlers breaking into the upstairs bathroom. Baby woken in the next room by […]

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Lack of Postings – Why??

Posted in Motherhood, My Books, My Life, Writing on November 7, 2014 | 2 Comments »

Some of you might have noticed that I didn’t post last week. I almost forgot to do it this week too! I promise this blogging laziness won’t become a habit, but right now I’ve been thrown off my game by a couple of factors: 1. As I expected, my morning sickness has gotten worse…it’s been […]

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