This is a response to friends who've asked me if Pullman's trilogy is completely anti-Christian. Actually, no, but they work up to it. As far as I'm concerned, the best reason not to read them is because the last book is so lousy that you'll feel cheated ( Read more... )

Answer the questions using the letter that begins your name ( Read more... )

I caught that awful cold that's been going around. Sore throat, nose full of wool, ears plugged... in other words, Paradise ( Read more... )

I can't believe how relieved and FREE I feel ( Read more... )

because I'm going to be deported to Canada. ;)

You Have Not Been Ruined by American Culture
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1. Yourself: eccentric ( Read more... )

Do you know what a seiche is ( Read more... )

I keep wondering whether Gabe would have expressed sadness or merely shook his head with that crooked smile of his, to read this:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_new_orleans.html

I've returned from a week of camping, waterfall-hunting, and running at breakneck speed to escape nasty swarms of flies! (Imagine that scene from "Chariots of Fire", but make it two women being chased over water-pounded rock and past shipwrecks half-buried in sand ( Read more... )

1. How old will you be in 12 months? No, not math ( Read more... )