Show of hands: how many of you were fans of Boyz II Men in, say, jr/sr high? They were hot stuff in my little group back then. So hot, in fact, that our youth pastor felt it necessary to print up the lyrics to "I'll Make Love to You" and made us discuss them in youth group. His overall message being, of course, that this was not appropriate ( Read more... )

My little sister turned 23 today ( Read more... )

Since I'm too sleepy to write a proper update, I thought I'd put up a little top five list.

Here are 5 cities - off the top of my head - that I would like to visit:

1. Prague
2. St. Petersburg
3. Charleston
4. Cairo
5. Montreal

Feel free to post up with the top five places (cities, countries, counties) you'd like to visit this May :-)

My returns are finally signed, sealed and (nearly) delivered ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm just NOW getting to them ( Read more... )

I wanted to make sure everyone has seen this opportunity (esp. our Chinese-studying friend). The state department funds (remember, they're your tax dollars!) these critical language scholarships for current undergrads, grad students and recent graduates to study various less-commonly taught languages during the summer ( Read more... )

Friends, I post here, for your enjoyment, the "St. Albion" snippet from that fantastic magazine of British satire: The Private Eye (available online). This bit is from the view of St. Albion's Viccar (Tony Blair ( Read more... )

I was doing some reading on Christian feminism today. I don't believe that true Christianity and pure feminism are incompatible, but so many people see conflict between these terms. Anyway, I ran across an interesting tidbit (courtesy of Wikipedia). Apparently the Hebrew word that we translate as "help" literally means "military rescue" not " ( Read more... )

In honor of the Christmas spirit (and further procrastination) I offer recipes for both an old and new favorite ( Read more... )

This Saturday Joshua and I checked out the 1/2-off everything sale at Goodwill. I left happy as a clam with 1 pair of dark blue twill pants (complete with belt), a black pair of dressy trousers a pink sweater/jumper (am wondering if I should translate for my friends across the pond? if so, knock the above "pants" reference as well), 2 packs of ( Read more... )