if possible or of interest, please consider Maximizing Your Giving this holiday season.

also, do think about selecting one or two very important gifts that will make a greater difference in the world, and letting your loved ones know you did so in their honor.

Heifer International
World Vision

this is SO. GOOD.

two priest friends watched the returns together, then started ringing the church bell joyously ( Read more... )

hello, friends-mine. just a moment of your time, if you have one:

what makes you want to go to the theatre?i'm curious. is it the recommendation of a friend? a photo in the paper? a written review? an ad on the radio? would you rather hear the snippet of a song from a musical, or look at a photographed costume? are you more intrigued if it's new, ( Read more... )

we have all long known that i have no self-discpline. this is one of those things that makes me so suited to be a gemini - i am at my best, efficiency-wise, when i am at my busiest. if you put one thing on my plate i will drag my feet to get it done; fifty, and i will power through them like a tornado through oklahoma. when i am bored i come up ( Read more... )

well.

From Wikipedia ( Read more... )

i very much appreciate this editorial from the atlantic about the political circus of the past two weeks or so. it is not about sarah palin, for once, or about loving barack obama so much - it is simply an analysis of john mccain's behavior over the past two presidential terms, and more recently in particular ( Read more... )

hahahahahaha, ahem.

( fucking hilarious. )

it is easy, in this heated political climate, to find untruths about ones candidate of choice or their opponent: obama is a muslim? not true. 2 month old trig is not sarah palin's child, but her teenage daughter's? not true. i myself fell prey to the easy slide into untruths earlier today when, along with curious co-workers, i went hunting for a ( Read more... )