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I light of Lincoln's 200 birthday, I thought this article might be of interest to the readers out there.

I'm having a hard time keeping up with anything right now!  LOL  Let me make sure first I understand the difference between a blog and a forum.  It would seem that forums are more like conversations and discussions.  So then it would seem that blogs are just like diary entries in a way.  You might put something out there that happened to you, or some update to let famil

I just received this notice from friend, Ken Wettig, regarding Baruch.  (Learn a bit more from the last announcement.)  I hope those of you within earshot of Harrisonburg can make it.  Some of us from the NoLessDays.org community will also be performing.  Here's his announcement:

Hey everybody,

I came across this motto today (the winner of a contest last year for best 6-word US motto ):

"Our worst critics prefer to stay"

I have developed a sort of love-hate relationship with these questions and discussions. I find myself thinking about nearly constantly and losing a little sleep at night as well. It’s one of those things you can’t just get out of your head; it grows and matures and evolves.

Since yesterday I have been playing with the idea of writing a blog that is in support of the anti-state view as a way of better understanding what the idea means, through writing and thinking it out. I have chosen to let this blog attempt to do just that, but not just as a rhetorical exercise, but also containing parts of what I really think about the idea.

 I heartily agree that I, and all of us oppose coercion, because it strips us of what makes us human, our choices, our free will. A difference lies in that I oppose coercion in the state, not the state because it has coercion.

This being my first entry on this site, I think, first I should give some sort of simple introduction. I am Nathan Sturgess, younger brother of Crissy Williams who is Adam’s wife. I have been an inactive member of no less days for several months and only now was I informed by my sister of the intriguing discussions being had here.

I think that maybe the initial page could be changed to be arranged by categories, ie.e, Experiences, Religion, Politics/Government, Music, Art, Poetry, or some grouping similar.  When you enter a comment on your blog you would have to pick a category for it.  People could go to a specific category from the main page; and, or also list the user sites.  I looked at

I just played with my user site for a little bit and those tools are really neat.   And I am playing with adding a pic.  This one is grandpa and Eden.  I guess I need to learn how to make it smaller!  This is so cool!