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My Stack of Books

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Since last summer or so, I've been purchasing new and used books.  Instead of trying to find a place for them on the shelves of my library, I got into the habit of stacking them up on the first shelf just inside the door of my office.  This has created a precarious stack that could fall.  As I finally sat down to dismantle it, I thought it would be fun to finally share my recent purchases and explain how they fit in with the rest of my library.  (Short on time?  Watch the 1 minute preview by clicking here. ) Two of these books were purchased because of interviews I heard on the WILL-AM program, Focus . You can listen to either of those interviews by following the links below: Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason / Russell Shorto, Director of the John Adams Institute, Amsterdam; Contributing Writer at the New York Times Listen here So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers And The First Great Battle Over Church and State / Fo

Shoe Shopping

I just joked that the shoes Kayla was looking at would cover the tattoo on the top of her foot. Kayla is 12. "I don't have a tattoo on the top of my foot," she said. This I knew. Then she continued, "I have a tramp stamp."