First of all, I apologize for slacking off toward the end of last year. I got lazy and was seldom inspired to post more than a sentence or two on any topic, so Facebook became my default means of getting my thoughts out there. I will try to do better in 2011.

Today I want to talk about Dan Savage. For years I would skim the Savage Love sex advice ( Read more... )

If you celebrate this day in any fashion, be it Christmas, Newtonmas, FSMas, or what have you, I hope it brings you Joy and Peace.


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I know. I've been sadly remiss in updating this blog. I wanted to write about our road trip to Philadelphia over Thanksgiving weekend, but I fell ill immediately after returning and spent most of last week flat on my back. No sooner had I recovered than we were frantically cleaning our place in preparation for having friends over to help decorate ( Read more... )

I slept a lot over the weekend. Granted, we had been out late three nights last week, but going to the gym is supposed to give me more energy, not less ( Read more... )

We've been remarkably social this month. Skeptics in the Pub started us off on October 4 with Sean Faircloth from Secular Coalition for America giving a rousing speech. On the 9th, we attended a champagne brunch in honor of our friends Sarah and Andy, whose wedding we attended one week later on the 16th. In between, Kevin took a quick trip up to ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe we hadn't seen our local swans since July. We didn't play much tennis in the heat of August, so our tradition of walking over to the pond afterward lapsed. On the couple of occasions we did visit, the swans were absent. Also, the other birds didn't think much of our replacing the bread we usually fed them with peas, after being ( Read more... )

Oops, did I forget to wrap this up? Sorry to keep my readers (all three of you) hanging.

On Monday, Kevin's friends Stacy, Anthony, and Christy met us for breakfast at the Corner Bakery Cafe. It was lovely to meet them and to spend some time away from the freaks and geeks. Meanwhile, Christine was attending one last panel before heading to the ( Read more... )

There was nothing calling out to us in the 10:00 slot on Sunday morning, so we slept in and made our leisurely way over to the main hotels, pausing at the Peachtree Center mall to attend the free pertussis vaccine clinic sponsored by Skepchick and Women Thinking Free. Though pertussis (whooping cough) is not serious in adults, it can be deadly to ( Read more... )

Kevin was up early for Skeptical Coffee Talk with James Randi and D.J. Grothe at 8:30. I opted to sleep a little longer and joined Kevin for the 10:00 panel What Happened to Saturday Mornings, which mainly wound up being a discussion of Land of the Lost with its head writer, David Gerrold. We then parted ways and I returned to the Skeptrack room ( Read more... )

I meant to post this yesterday, but I got distracted. Meanwhile, Kevin is already on Day Two. Gotta start catching up ( Read more... )