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Happy Birthday!
Have a great day, swooop! -
Will run for donuts
My kids largely have abandoned me on my quest for a Top Pot donut. My older son started track at school, so he's running more seriously at school and doesn't have time to join me anymore. My younger son is much less interested in running now that 1. his brother isn't around to make him laugh, and 2. the C25K program has intervals that go for 8, 10 ( Read more... ) -
Just got a better map of the territory.
Remember the financial melt-down a few years ago? I was really confused, at first, about just what had happened. After reading about it a bit, I thought I had a fairly good grasp of the big picture, but The Big Short finally snapped all the pieces together for me.
What happened in US financial institutions a couple of years ago actually began in ( Read more... ) -
Rest in Peace, Rev. Gomes
Rev. Gomes' coming out was one of the most exciting moments of my senior year in college. He bravely stood up to be counted at a time when college kids-never mind his peers on faulty!-were not nearly as accepting of homosexuality as they are now, and at a time when such an admission was universally shocking. (I know. I was there. Shock was ( Read more... ) -
I <3 Ron Suskind
Just finished the amazing A Hope in the Unseen. Am going out tomorrow to find everything else this man has written. What a writer. -
Done with plastic
"The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young."
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