L and I celebated Beltaine with the local Druid circle. I love the May pole. It's always my favorite part of the holiday (and no giggling in the background, there!). My favorite holiday, however, is Ostara, but Imbolc and Beltaine are really good, too. This celebration was in the forest in a local nature preserve, which is way better than ( Read more... )

My new favorite blog is Hyperbole and a half (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/). Check out the funny drawings and stories!

Saturday the wife and I attended the annual Ann Arbor showing of the Smithee awards! No, we didn't attend just because of the name*. The awards celebrate the very worst in movies with 19 categories, including most inane dialog, worst acting, most ridiculous premise, overkill (termed here "Cutting butter with a chainsaw"). The show culminates in ( Read more... )

Have you ever read the Non-Theist Friends' antholoyg "Godless for God's Sake"? It's an explanation of what some Non-Theist Friends believe and a compilation of their spiritual journey stories ( Read more... )

It's Do-or-Die Time for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act: Whip Count Now Under Way. Call your Rep right now at 202-224-3121 to demand an inclusive ENDA with gender identity protections. If passed with gender identity included, the law will protect LGBT people from workplace discrimination.

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The Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, a disability rights and services organization, is hosting a series of public tours of our Center to show everyone how much we do for the community. One woman left our last tour saying, "I had no idea you do so much ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lexi and I cleared the vegetable garden space of flower (which we replanted elsewhere) and weeds (that went into the city's compost collector). We still have to rake up the leaves from the fall, but we're waiting on that in part because it's raining really hard today and in part because the leaves protect the soil until it's ready for ( Read more... )

I just registered online. You can, too, at http://www.fgcquaker.org/gathering/2010/register-now

My semi-cold has gone away and I'm all better now. That's the good news. The bad news is that now Lexi has the cold and she's got it on both sides of her head.