© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-befus Recent reviews written by member befus en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_475941801604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Though I have many favorite singers/songwriters, there are only a few whose work I've listened to for so many years that their music has become a sort of soundtrack to my life. Michael Card, a Christian musician whom I first saw in concert over... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475941801604 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:03:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475941801604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474845187716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - For months now, I feel like I've been married to one of Jim Henson's long-lost cousins. My husband, who has worked in church drama ministries for many years, has recently turned to another area of creative arts ministry: puppeteering.  That means... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474845187716 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:58:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474845187716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476065795716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - My seven year old daughter loves the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We've been reading them aloud, savoring them and taking breaks in between to read other things. Thus we started with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476065795716 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:15:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476065795716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475907198596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Anytime I hear that author Shannon Hale has a new book, it's worth celebrating...and checking out! Perhaps best known for her Newbery honor book Princess Academy, Hale has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475907198596 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:20:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475907198596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475620085380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - My husband and I have fond memories of television and movies from the early 1990s. It's probably because we graduated college and got married in those years, and so we remember everything from those days with extra fondness. I know a heavy haze of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475620085380 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:45:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475620085380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475002998404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Charlie has a little sister named Lola. She is small...and very funny. She is also (no big surprise) a VERY picky eater. This can make things challenging for Charlie when his parents ask him to give Lola her dinner.What does this little four year... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475002998404 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:28:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475002998404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474742427268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Pickles is a young yellow cat with black spots. He lives in a barrel near the house of a lady named Mrs. Goodkind. She would like to adopt him, but Pickles has a bit of an independent streak. He also has dreams of growing up and doing big things. But... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474742427268 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:25:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474742427268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442626313860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I enjoy fruit flavored herbal teas, and some of my favorites are those made by Celestial Seasonings. I'm particularly fond of their "Black Cherry Berry," "Wild Forest Blackberry" and "Raspberry Zinger" varieties. A while ago I came across... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442626313860 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:42:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442626313860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474392268420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I'm an urban apartment dweller with no yard, but my location has not stopped my growing fascination with birds. I'm so fascinated by them, in fact, that I don't even mind how ridiculously noisy the starlings (who built this year's nest between two... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474392268420 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474392268420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474181963396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - It seems I can often categorize seasons of my life by certain books and authors, including those I go back to and read often. I'm currently in a deeply "Lewisian" season, and while that means I'm having a wonderful time reading and re-reading certain... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474181963396 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:22:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474181963396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471230484100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Well, we've done it. We have discovered our six year old daughter's fictional alter ego. She's a little cartoon girl named Lola. She's British. She has a big brother named Charlie. And she is (to quote the affectionate and only occasionally exasperated... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471230484100 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:15:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471230484100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473752571524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I love the fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast. I've almost never met a version I didn't enjoy, from Cocteau's famous film to Mme Le Prince De Beaumont's classic telling to Disney's animated musical... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473752571524 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:36:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473752571524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473493048964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I've been reading a lot of C.S. Lewis again lately: both his books and secondary literature about his life and work. A recent trip to the library led me to a new book I'd never heard of but which turned out to be a real pleasure: A Reader's Guide... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473493048964 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:42:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473493048964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473239555716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - It can be fascinating to ask people to share their first political memory. Depending on their age, you can get a wide variety of answers that show the kinds of events and images that press themselves on public consciousness. For me, that first... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473239555716 Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:13:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473239555716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472020061828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author befus - When 12 year old Henry York arrives at his Aunt and Uncle's house in Kansas, he's unprepared for what he'll find. In some respects, things seem very ordinary. His Uncle Frank and Aunt Dorothy (Dotty) are very kind and affectionate, even if his Uncle does... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472020061828 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:12:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472020061828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472430644868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - It's not often that my daughter and I are both immediately drawn to the cover of a book. But that was definitely the case with Duck! Rabbit! a clever new picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld.Duck! Rabbit!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472430644868 Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:38:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472430644868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472025501316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I recently came across the self-titled debut album of the popular young band Nickel Creek. The recording is almost ten years old; the group has since produced a handful of other albums and moved on into solo careers. I can still call them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472025501316 Fri, 29 May 2009 18:01:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472025501316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471761391236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Margaret Olivia Fortini, "Maggie-O" for short, is a young Catholic girl growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s. If you ask her Mom, she was named for her Irish great-grandmother and for the actress from Gone With the Wind. If you ask her Daddy, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471761391236 Wed, 27 May 2009 16:49:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471761391236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471249424004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I'll admit it: watching the new "reboot" of Star Trek for the big screen got me all nostalgic for the real thing. Don't get me wrong...I thoroughly enjoyed myself while watching the new 2009... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471249424004 Tue, 26 May 2009 15:35:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471249424004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471230156420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I recently discovered that I've believed a kind of urban legend for years: I remember being taught (somewhere along life's way) that the Great Wall of China was the only man-made structure one could see from space. That turns out not to be true... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471230156420 Mon, 25 May 2009 18:06:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471230156420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471054913156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - Last month my young daughter and I celebrated poetry month by reading new poetry every day. We were supported in that endeavor by a handful of blogs celebrating children's poetry. One of the blogs we regularly visited featured new interviews with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471054913156 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:08:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471054913156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470481866372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - "Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470481866372 Wed, 20 May 2009 10:02:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470481866372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465329557124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author befus - I love good pens. Although I spend more time at a keyboard these days than I care to admit, I still love the feel of writing by hand with a good pen. I've always been a prolific journaler and having pens I feel comfortable writing with is an important... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465329557124 Tue, 19 May 2009 14:04:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465329557124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469638614660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author befus - As much as I love movies, I can only think of a handful of films that pull me in to watch them no matter how many times I've seen them. I recently realized that the 1962 musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469638614660 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:15:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469638614660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470482194052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author befus - It's spring, which in our family means picnics. We're especially fond of trekking to nearby parks for picnic suppers on weekends. We usually pack very simply: sandwiches, fruit, and some sort of chips. Although we often pack whatever's on hand, sometimes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470482194052 Fri, 15 May 2009 18:55:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470482194052?linkin_id=8003929