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My stepsister's famous carrot cake
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What I'm Craving Now
Black Bean Hummus (Ready In: 5 Minutes, let sit for an afternoon for stronger flavor ( Read more... ) -
Edwards plans 2008 campaign announcement
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press
Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, has decided he can [compete against Clinton/Obama] and is planning to announce his campaign in New Orleans between Christmas and New Year's, two Democrats said.
Edwards' novel choice of sites shows how he wants to distinguish his candidacy: emphasizing policies he ( Read more... ) -
Advent Hymns: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Translated from the latin the lyrics echo a number of prophetic themes. The title comes from the well known Isaiah 7:14: “Be hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel," meaning “God with us" in Hebrew. The “Rod of Jesse” refers to Isaiah 11:1: “There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse”; Jesse was ( Read more... ) -
I totally read Moltmann all of the time but...
... like someone else I know I am not a Calvinist. That said, my step-dad's a Calvinist, and we live in a Calvinistic country so it's hard not to have it seep into one's pores (no offense to my Calvinist friends out their in LJ-land).
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From the Writers Almanac
Happy Birthday Bill Blake!"It's the birthday of William Blake, (books by this author) born in London (1757). He wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). He lived in poverty, ignorant of the rest of the literary world of London, scraping out a living from his trade as an engraver, and writing and ( Read more... ) -
Tools to Own: Essentials and "Nice to Haves"
I saw this on MSN and thought that it was worth reposting here. I think I have about 7 of these & I definitely think it's worth getting the rest of the list when I can ( Read more... ) -
This Life
Now that whole, "Where's my This American Life?" scandal is all over (for those of you who didn't find out something was wrong with my computer/their server whatever while they were changing the format of their page and I wasn't able to click on the link to the free streaming they allow) I'm back to listening to the show again. A couple of weeks ( Read more... ) -
Clinton vs. McCain
I was just wondering, am I the only liberal Democrat who would vote for John McCain before she would vote for Hillary Clinton? The thing is that I know that I disagree with McCain over a lot of issues, but I would rather have a president who has been to war, and is as ethical as politicians get before I would vote for someone who I think is ( Read more... ) -
Since I still can't sleep...
... and I'm still obsessed with pumpkin, I'm going to make these muffins and take them to work with me today. I'm nervous about the molasses, because while I love molasses, I find that youth today don't know this flavor and so they think it's kind of weird. I'll probably cut the oil with apple sauce but that's probably the only modification I'll ( Read more... )