Living in the deep south is difficult for me. Even working at an institution of higher education, I run into people whose minds are not even open the small fraction that mine is ( Read more... )

Ok, so for Christmas a couple of years ago, LBG received one of those frog habitats, where you send off to buy the tadpoles and watch them grow into frogs.

And about a year later we finally sent off for two tadpoles, who arrived in great condition. After a wait of several weeks (okay, it took about 3 months) one of the tadpoles developed legs and ( Read more... )

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Heads-Up for those of you who didn't already know: August 4-10 is Blog Against Racism Week. This will be my first disjointed attempt to participate. I'm starting early because it is the weekend and I have working brain cells on weekends.

Starter Links:
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - very important for white people to get, before we can talk ( Read more... )

*while watching a Carl Sagan special about the cosmos on the science channel ( Read more... )

No matter what purse I am currently carrying my stuff around in, I always have to search for my keys ( Read more... )

Spent this weekend camped out in the den with the wood stove.
Since the weather was expected to drop below freezing, and we were actually getting rain on Friday and Saturday, I proposed we haul out the air matresses and crank up the wood stove, fully expecting the power to go off at some point. Eternal pessimist, me.

I remember the first ice storm in ( Read more... )

This morning I did the usual clean the house thing (a clever excuse to listen to the songs on my mp3 player!!) while LBG did her usual watch cartoons and ask me if she could be my puppy/kitty/mew/pet, but this afternoon hubby and LBG are putting together one of her Christmas gifts. Hubby picked out a "make your own toolbox " kit, pre-cut wood and ( Read more... )

Apparently all I have the energy for lately is posting photo links:
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totally finally used my napster card to get new music for the mp3 player:

Into the Ocean - Blue October
Half an Acre - HEM
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Unwell - Matchbox 20
And She Was - Talking Heads
Grey Sky Morning - Vertical Horizon
My Immortal - Evanescence
Big Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - US3
Video - India.Arie
Beverly ( Read more... )