By J. Timothy King on June 28, 2010
Ain’t it fascinating how your life can be completely derailed by a few days of computer downtime (and an impending new job, and a birthday party, and Mario Kart)? My MacBook Pro’s checkerboard-display crashing problem, which first hit back in January, suddenly reappeared about two and a half weeks ago. After several hours of persistence, […]
Posted in About Tim King, Technology | Tagged MacBook Pro, white screen of death
By J. Timothy King on June 8, 2010
I started Truffles by the Sea a couple months ago. Then life got in the way. Being an author and blogger is always a balancing act between reading and writing, and sometimes I fall off the high-wire. I’m about a quarter of the way through this Christian chick-lit— er, that is, beach-lit novel by Julie […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Julie Carobini, Truffles by the Sea |
By J. Timothy King on June 4, 2010
How I love Mission: Impossible! Let me count the ways… There’s a quirk of personal history connected with this show. The first time I ever saw it was as a teenager, when I happened to catch a rerun of a 1970 episode, “The Killer.” In this episode, co-starring Leonard Nimoy, the IMF team cons a […]
Posted in Entertainment, Television | Tagged Mission Impossible, TV |
By J. Timothy King on May 25, 2010
For a study series with some of the gang from my church, I’ve been reading Timothy Keller’s The Prodigal God. In this short but profound book, Keller reexamines the so-called Parable of the Prodigal Son. He points out that the story is really about two sons, the younger brother, who squanders his share of his […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged The Prodigal God, Timothy Keller |
By J. Timothy King on May 21, 2010
As you may know, I do the soccer-dad thing really badly. I do okay as a stay-at-home Dad—except that I always seem to be behind on the housework. But I am so glad I don’t own a minivan! I don’t know how I would cope if I had to cart the neighborhood kids around everywhere. […]
Posted in Food, Recipes | Tagged burritos, junk food, McDonald's, nachos, potatoes, ramen |
By J. Timothy King on May 20, 2010
I’m sitting with Jen Knox, author of the indie memoir Musical Chairs, here in my virtual living room today. Hi, Jen. Hi, Tim. As you know, I loved Musical Chairs. What does the title allude to? “Musical Chairs” came from the name of a game, where music plays and kids run around a circle of […]
Posted in Books | Tagged interview, Jen Knox, Musical Chairs |
By J. Timothy King on May 19, 2010
And by “original,” I don’t mean the Pilgrims. I don’t mean the Jamestown settlers, who arrived some 13 years earlier. I don’t mean the first permanent Spanish settlement in 1565. I don’t even mean the African slaves who escaped their Spanish captors, who had landed in 1526 in modern South Carolina. Those Spanish shortly left […]
Posted in History | Tagged America, Founding Fathers, James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Native Americans, Pilgrims, United States, war |
By J. Timothy King on May 18, 2010
After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, James W. Loewen has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our […]
Posted in Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me |
By J. Timothy King on May 4, 2010
Determined to turn her life around, Gaby Flores moves to a beachfront loft, takes on a new motto–Be gullible no more–and begins to rebuild her flower store while searching for Mr. So Right. But when a lawsuit, an eviction notice, a near-empty bank account, and quirky neighbors invade her beachy world, not even chocolate can […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Julie Carobini, Truffles by the Sea
By J. Timothy King on May 3, 2010
“Always bet on stupidity.” I heard that quote last week on a classic episode of Babylon 5, “Ceremonies of Light and Dark.” Fascinating that it should be so apropos. I first heard about the water emergency Saturday afternoon when my daughter’s school phoned us with a pre-recorded message. They said there had been a break […]
Posted in Fear and Love, Politics | Tagged fear, panic, psychology |