In getting ready for my sessions on Sanskrit at the upcoming ISCA conference, I am in the process of totally overpreparing. I mean, all I can hope to accomplish is to...
In contrast to the previous post, feel free to disregard the date of this entry. Once again I want to thank the late Max Müller for not voicing any objections for my...
PRESIDENT OBAMA CONVERTS TO MORMONISM We have always known that politics may cause some unexpected twists, but still virtually everyone was surprised this morning when...
My brother Wolf and his wife Yvonne are continuing their stay in Germany, looking after my dad, who is making good progress in recovery. He has now moved into a permanent care...
I don't know if the job is really done, but, for the moment at least, it's off the list: The manuscript for the next volume of the Journal of the International Society of...
It's been an extremely heavily loaded week by anyone's standards. Most of my time and energy has been going into preparing the ISCA journal for puplication, but it's...
I've been working on getting the next issue of the ISCA journal put together. If I can stay with the task, it may yet get published by the time of the meeting...
What a long day yesterday was! Of course, today was shortened by an hour by the government, putting us already into daylight savings time, but that didn't make yesterday...
As expected, I heard from my brother Wolf at the first opportunity he got to call from Germany. He and Yvonne had a very long, but safe, trip to Germany from Alaska. He began...
I have had no update on my dad's condition for the last few days. Brother Wolf and his wife Yvonne have flown over to Germany, and I won't get word until...
This is a little bit of a bitter-sweet entry. First of all, it's time to celebrate the annual arrival of the crocuses in the back yard. They seem to have multiplied...
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is still under death sentence for apostasy from a religion that he never claimed as his own at the age of accountability. Muslims around the...
Now do you see why I object to Muslim radicals being called "fundamentalists"? This is such an absurd term to use outside of its historical context, namely the...
So, how do you spell Krishna in Sanskrit? Well, your intuition may be that you need four consonants and two vowels. Not a bad guess, but that's not how Sanskrit works....
Sorry about the test entry yesterday. I needed to see to what extent I could include Sanskrit words with greater efficiency than in the past. I undid the post almost...
Nick and Meghan have moved into their new place. June and I did what we could to help. We made numerous trips back and forth with the Dakota. To use a German...
This is going to be short entry. Nick and Meghan have officially closed the on their new house, and late tonight (Friday) we still drove out there through the light snow...
For a couple of days now, I've been finding myself in a cluster of cluster headaches. As always I'm thankful for Imitrex--two shots so far--and they help immensely, but wish I...
Yesterday (Monday) certainly started out on a dubious note. I was scheduled to lead a discussion group with some faculty members of the Marion, IN campus of IVY Tech (a...
I promised a couple of entries ago, that there may be some surprises in store for you as I continue the story of Krishna and clarify the difference between him and Jesus...
Despite the many unfounded conjectures that make for best-selling novels, there is no good reason to believe that Jesus was ever married, not even to Mary Magdalene....
It's been a weird day. I tried to implement some of Dr. W's recommendation a little too fast, I think; I spent the night mostly reading Owen Chadwick's book on the...
Well, life goes on. Things are continuing to be slow, but I'm getting a few things done. Sunday evening we had a great time with two former colleagues playing music. Then on...
Before finding out whether Krishna survived beyond the day of his birth, let me quickly throw out a few comments on the person of Balarama, Krishna's older brother in...
In certain circles it has become almost conventional wisdom that there are remarkable resemblances between the life and mission of Jesus Christ and of the Hindu avatar/deity...
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