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Music to Do Taxes by
Dave White at About.com has a top ten for classic rock songs to do taxes by, but my taxes are so painful this year I don't even want to pay .99 apiece for the mp3's where available...and not all of them are. Perhaps you are in the same boat. (Or if you're with the Kinks, in the same yacht.) Here's the frugal YouTube-MySpace version of his list, ( Read more... ) -
Feng Shui Nazi
Yes, it costs money to go to the University of Chicago Divinity School. Quite a lot of money, actually, even with scholarships. And living in a townhome whose value has decreased by a third since the mortgage was financed costs money too. So we empty the closets, clean out the basement, scour the shelves. Or mainly, she does. And drags me along, ( Read more... ) -
Why Hashtags Are Not Like Underwear
When I was a girl, my mother bought me a package of seven colored panties with the days of the week embroidered on them. It was a bit precious, but something about the orderliness of this - as well as the possibility for disruption - appealed to me. Once I tried to create a rip in the space-time continuum by wearing Friday on Wednesday. Sadly, ( Read more... ) -
55 Makes Stories Thrive. With Your Help.
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
Mary Oliver’s poem is about a swan. Some of us feel that way about story. It changes lives.
I support the creative power of storytelling through the organization that has given me the most access to that power, Northstar Storytelling League - a Minnesota ( Read more... ) -
10 Facts About My Mom
- In first grade, I painstakingly lettered her name, Dorisanne, beneath a crayon portrait. I spelled it as I heard it: D-o-or S-a-n-d. I do not remember thinking this odd.
2. Her own nickname as a kid, Captain Midnight, came from the Slovak unibrow. She’s still a tweezer fiend.
3. One Christmas she asked for a watch. All of her friends were ( Read more... ) - In first grade, I painstakingly lettered her name, Dorisanne, beneath a crayon portrait. I spelled it as I heard it: D-o-or S-a-n-d. I do not remember thinking this odd.
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Resurrection
On the Christian liturgical calendar, it is still Lent. I am, nevertheless, taking this opportunity to resurrect my blog. It's been two years since I burned myself out posting "reviews" - perhaps we should call them "ornate appreciations" - of my friends' performances at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Last year I didn't even go to the Fringe ( Read more... ) -
Altered Arthur
"I sometimes wonder if it's me that's being made love to. I feel like I'm being harpooned by some raging monk in the act of receiving God." Emily Jessup, Altered States.
I saw Ken Russell’s adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's novel in 1982 with a man who aspired to be Eddie Jessup. I married him anyway. When phillip andrew bennett low gets on ( Read more... ) -
Lily Was Right. Thank Goodness.
Katherine Glover
A Cynic Tells Love Stories
Augsburg Main Stage
2211 Riverside Ave., Minneapolis
Fri., Jul. 31 @ 10:00 p.m.., Sat. Aug. 1 @ 1:00 p.m. Sun., Aug. 2 @ 8:30 p.m., Thu., Aug. 6 @ 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 @ 7:00 p.m.
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up. Lily Tomlin.
When the meltdown of ( Read more... ) -
Recovery Act
Curt Lund and Laura Bidgood - What Happened? Productions
Slow Jobs: Servicing America for $12 an Hour
U of M Rarig Center, Arena Stage
330 21st Avenue S. Minneapolis, MN
Friday, July 31; 8:30pm Sunday, August 2; 4:00pm Tuesday, August 4; 5:30pm Wednesday, August 5; 10:00pm Saturday, August 8; 8:30. http://fringefestival.org/2009/show ( Read more... ) -
Take; eat.
“I do not have any difficulty believing the Host is Christ’s body,” said my Roman Catholic friend. “What I have trouble believing is that it is bread.” Apparently, however, transubstantiation is a fragile process. Because according to the Vatican, whether real bread or wafer, the priest can't make Jesus without gluten.
Orders are orders.
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