She's Catholic.

Her stuffed giraffe is Jewish.

Perhaps I'm not taking this seriously enough, but I feel that a five year old has it all figured out. And it turns out, it's not that hard after all.http://parenting.blogs.

So far, only Chabad and an atheist group (with a sweet-sounding sign) hsve requested permits to put up displays at the Seattle Capital building ( Read more... )

We have a Victrola at the New Orleans house, and occasionally go all retro on the place, literally rolling up the rugs and playing that crazy jazz on 78's. We have a copy of the following song--ours is a more oink-riffic version--which I recommend playing not just when in the mood for ham. It's just a Thing To Make You Happy. Leave a comment

...and maybe I still do. But would the kind of absurdist conversations recorded by this one occasionally-still-patient proprietor happen often enough so that it would motivate me or defeat me ( Read more... )

I just spend a shamefully long amount of time on the Eileen Fisher web site, because I got a bug to have some nice new clothes. Their sales area is dense, many garments look similar to the previous garment, some are cheaper by $40-$50 depending on color (black is more costly, natch), some of the fabric is cheesier when examined closely, there are ( Read more... )

Trying to parse accompanying quote. Can't.

Gay Marriage Bill Fails In New York
Today the NY State Senate voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. One State Senator claimed, "Not only the evangelicals, not only the Jews, not only the Muslims, not only the Catholics, but also the people oppose it." [NYT]

I've been mainlining books over here for awhile--it's my real drug of choice--and successfully not thinking about how far I'd be with that elusive PhD if I spent the hours I spend reading this and that on line instead reading still more (and, ideally, volumes relevant to said program). So let's combine the two, the (near)bibliomania and the ( Read more... )

...no particular order and certainly not inclusive...

Cake.
People who write books.
Modern medicine.
That people like you let me peek into your lives.

Cormac McCarthy, in the WSJ, on why he sticks to novels...

"I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."

Courtesy Bookninja...

New mscancerchick up. I like the part about cake best.