BIBLE CHRONOLOGY — top

• A Bible Chronology  (HTML format)

CHARTS AND REFERENCES — top

• Bible Words Phonetic Pronunciation Chart
  (Includes non-Biblical religious and historical words)
• Pronunciation help for the books:
  • Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?
  • Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy!
  • (Coming soon.) Live With Jehovah’s Day in Mind
• How to Keep a Calendar in Your Head
• Are You an HSP?
  (A Highly Sensitive Person)

BIBLE PUZZLES — top

• 101 Bible Number Puzzles:
      101 Puzzles  |  101 Puzzles With Hints  |  Answers
• Who Said . . . ? 101 Bible Quotations:
      No. 1  |  No. 2  |  No. 3  |  No. 4  |  No. 5  |  No. 6
      (Every person’s quotation—from a variety of Bible translations—
        is juxtaposed with other quotations that are related in some way)
• Bible Logic Puzzles:
  • Paul Sails to Rome  (Logic based on the “Einstein” logic puzzle)
  • Paul Awaits Trial in Rome  (Continuation of the previous puzzle)
• Bible Crypto-Groups:
  • Transportation
  • Writers of Psalms and Proverbs
  • Cities of Canaan
  • Musical Instruments
  • Adam and Eve
  • Judges of Israel
  • Ancient Bible Cities
• Bible Quotation puzzles:
  • Something Solomon Said
  • A Mother ’s Advice to Her Son
  • A Message From One of Jesus’ Half Brothers
  • One of Solomon ’s Observations About Fickle Human Nature
  • The Strength of Love
  • The Royal or Kingly Law
  • About Entertaining Others
• Also Known As:
      AKA Bible Puzzle, 30 Questions
• Bible Word-Find Puzzles:
  • “M” Bible Names
  • Psalm 119
• Bible Quizes:
  • Foods of the Bible
  • Foods of the Bible, Italian Version
    (I Cibi Della Bibbia, Versione Italiana)
  • Women in the Bible: Quiz 1
  • Women in the Bible: Quiz 2

GENEALOGY — top

• Surname Lists  (For Donald R. Butler & Carolyne J. Kemp Butler)
• Ahnentafel Chart  (For Carolyne J. Kemp Butler)
• Oliver V. Kemp (1891–1971)  (To My Granddad)
• Howard Family Line  (Mordecai, Henry, John H., Lucy A. – VA, GA, AL)

VIEWS FROM THE CORNER — top

• Smoky Mountain Views — A Slideshow
• Florida to Colorado Slideshow — Summer 2002
• Views Through the Windshield: Florida to Colorado — Summer 2001
• Pictures Just for Fun  (An ongoing project)
• Hurricane Ivan Pictures, September 2004   (Pictures of damage in Pensacola, Florida)

POETRY — top

• Intrusion  (Something to think about)
• Checkmate  (Not a game of love, for love is not a game)
• After Loss
• Answering Mail  (A sonnet for an ex)
• Leaves  (Nothing like a blazing summer love)
• No Everlastings Included  (Say it with flowers)
• On Opening a Joint Bank Account  (It all depends upon the meaning of one word)
• Those Smiths  (I was the guilty eight-year-old in the bathtub)
• Hand-me-downs  (With each person’s death, a universe dies)
• Lifestyle  (Who holds the key to this prison?)
• TV Documentary  (Isaiah 25:6, 7)
• Explanation  (There are some far worse ways to die)
• Absalom by the Gate  (His ilk lives on)
• The Late Queen Was Never Late  (Daughters don’t count)
• The Lady She Knew How to Dress  (Fair Eleanor of Aquitaine, that is)
• I Wear My Fat Grandma ’s Jeans  (She had no idea they would last that long)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Teacher  (With apologies to Wallace Stevens)
• The Gift of Boquillas  (A walk in the desert)
• A Discussion on Relativity  (Silly girl, you just don’t understand)
• Damned
• Snake   (In the South, in the country, on a hot summer day)
• Maiden Flight  (Down to the sea)
• Monarchs
• Remembering Pensacola, 1945

SHORT STORIES — top

• A Small Family Inheritance

INTERNET LINKS — top

• Links for Astronomy:
  • NASA’S Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Space Weather
  • Sky & Telescope


• Links for Bible & History:
  • Links to Online Bibles
  • Links to Many Online Bibles
  • Read the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures online
  • e-Sword  (Program with Bibles and Study References)
  • Hebrew and Greek Lexicons   (Crosswalk)
  • Hebrew and Greek Lexicons  (StudyLight)


• Links for Dvorak Keyboard Layout:
  • More Efficient Typing  (Better than Qwerty)
  • About Dvorak on Wikipedia  (Pros and cons)
  • Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard   (Includes links to other Dvorak sites)
  • “Let Your Fingers Do Less Walking”  (From The Mensa Bulletin)


• Links for Entertainment:
  • BluegrassCountry Radio   (Bluegrass music online)
  • DesktopGrass Radio  (Bluegrass music online)
  • A Prairie Home Companion  (Garrison Keillor’s radio variety show)
  • The Lone Sloan  (Dee Sloan’s trivia radio show about old radio, movies, and TV shows. Archived shows)


• Links for Genealogy:
  • GenForum  (Great for ancestor sleuthing)


• Links for Miscellany:
  • Steve’s Digital Photo of the Day  (Check out the archives)
  • Daily Sudoku
  • Life.com Sudodu  (Easy mouse-click numbers)
  • The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad   (One of my favorite narrow gauge steam train rides)
  • US Federal Government: Frequently Used Sites


• Links for Museums:
  • British Museum
  • Smithsonian


• Links for News:
  • Paul Harvey’s News Commentary
  • Pensacola News Journal  (Local Florida newspaper where I live)


• Links for Personality Types:
  What’s Your Personality Type?  (Brief quiz)
  • What Is Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type?  (Brief quiz)
  • Jung Typology Test  (72 questions)
  • Introduction to the 16 MBTI Personality Types  (Explanations using cartoons)
  • Descriptions of the 16 MBTI Personality Types  (Read the FAQ)
  • More Descriptions of the 16 MBTI Personality Types
  • David Keirsey’s Descriptions of the 16 MBTI Personality Types


• Links for Weather:
  • Weather Underground  (Current weather plus forecasts worldwide)
  • Intellicast Radar Map for the US
  • Naval Research Laboratory  (Tropical cyclone information for all oceans)
  • Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog  (For Atlantic, Carribbean, and Gulf of Mexico storm watchers)


• Links for Words & Writing:
  • Online Dictionaries  (Links)
  • Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary   (Lots of goodies)
  • Your Dictionary  (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)
  • Answers.com  (Encyclopedia, Thesaurus, Dictionary)
  • Strunk’s Elements of Style
  • English Grammar
  • 100 Most Often Misspelled Words and Phrases in English
  • Writer’s Resource Center   (Especially for writers)
  • Bartleby  (Plenty of references)
  • A.W.A.D. (A.Word.A.Day)  (A must site for linguaphiles)
  • Word Spy  (Newly coined words)
  • Chiasmus  (Criss-cross word play)
  • Mondegreens   (Thee, Sir Fun)
  • The Writer’s Almanac  (Includes a poem a day, hosted by Garrison Keillor)
  • World Wide Words  (“Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint”)

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