1. I still haven't got around to buying this – but it looks great! An anthology of short comings on depression.

2. Challies lists 13 ways to waste your money.

3. I find some of the outcries about 'sexualisation of kids toys' to be shrill and exaggerated. But then again Bratz and Barbie dolls are repellant. And this is so so so wonderful: Tree Change Dolls.

4. Andrew Heard on then danger of a passion for growth.

5. I'm big on family dinner times. We did it growing up, and I've been consistent, if not inflexible about it in my own family.  Challies gives 5 reasons they eat together as a family.

6. Missing out on motherhood – a sad effect of the sexual revolution.

7. Is Old Testament holy war the same as Islamic State jihad?