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Life, death, and lousy campgrounds

By Carolynne EstisPosted on February 28, 2013Posted in BlogsTagged euthanasia, human dignity, good and evil, travels, right to life, Abortion

In the time that my family has been on the road, our journey has been predominantly dictated by where we my parents have to work, and since they work on railroad tracks, we usually end up in railroad towns. These are mostly small towns, but sometimes we end up in places that are actually still[…]

Helpless, but not hopeless

By Carolynne EstisPosted on January 16, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged western culture, culture of death, survival, Carolynne Estis, good and evil, dental work, moose, Gary Paulsen, insanity, reason, modernity

Yesterday I was sitting in a fairly uncomfortable chair in the dentist’s office with my mouth full of dental equipment and a couple pairs of hands. As I sat there, without even the ability to say “ouch,” I was struck by a feeling of helplessness. In addition to being unable to speak, I couldn’t see[…]

Elementary heroes

By Carolynne EstisPosted on January 9, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged Carolynne Estis, modernism, Virtue, heroes, heroism, good vs evil, Sherlock Holmes, choices, strength and weakness, memory, good and evil, moral decay

Every hero in every story worth telling has at least one thing in common with every other decent hero ever written. Each one must face an enemy that is absolutely, one hundred percent matched to his own skills and strengths. This is the one enemy that can utterly destroy the hero, the one enemy that[…]