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My nascent atheisim, and taking other people's recycling
So, I just read "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris. It's pretty good, and a quick read. I have recently been leaning more toward "live and let live" in terms of the Christians of the world, but Harris' seductive brand of logic and statistics is swaying me toward a more militant secular humanism ( Read more... ) -
Cookie's a star!
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2009/01/bun-dump-truck.html
We sent this in, like last summer, but who's counting ... -
What's wrong with education
So today I taught my first art club at the elementary school where L. would have gone if we stayed in our district. The kids weren't bad. They weren't even sort of bad. They were lost. As in, you just dropped an entire cup of black painty water on the floor, and you're looking at me like I'm going to A) Freak out at you, and B) send you to the ( Read more... ) -
Re-blog, mommy style
OK, so the dudes have located the kids CD section at the library. I'm tortured daily, either by Sesame Street songs, or by the children crying because I refuse to play the Sesame Street songs ( Read more... ) -
Am loving ...
that someone else is sharing my current crochet fixation.
http://www.rodel-la.com/colecao_en/5/index.htm
So boooootiful, but would these accentuate my matronly upper arms? Probs ... -
Imaginary friends
I wish the life of my imaginanation had the detail of my little guys. I asked them to tell me about their imaginary friends. Here's what they said:
Big one:
Stretchy: Well, he can breathe fire. And I'm making a little adds to him. He's gonna have some wings and scales on his head. He's has lots of holes that shoot different kinds of stuff -- like ( Read more... ) -
Suck it, Christmas!
Ten days until Christmas, is your shopping done? Hell no, it's not. I'm too poor to shop! I make my gifts, because allegedly I have more time than money. FALSE. Every year I tell myself, "My presence is the gift." But it's not. I have to reciprocate the consumerist fervor that strikes the hearts of all good middle-class Americans ( Read more... )