For the first two years of college, I missed having a cat badly but Nick and I were in living situations that didn't allow for that. I got N to agree to adopt a cat when we moved back to Texas from Minnesota, to an apartment complex that permitted it. A week or two after the move in 2004, I brought the topic up and when he expressed second thoughts ( Read more... )

What is one (or what are some) of the happiest moments you've ever had in your life?

Share whatever you like - but I encourage you to really set the scene for us. How were all your senses engaged? Who was involved, where, when? Why was the experience significant? How does it make you feel now to think of it?

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So, I'm developing a new volunteer position at the senior center where I work. It's a pretty simple idea: to pair volunteers with selected clients for one-on-one quality time, the ones who we think would benefit the most (the ones that are chatty but tend to get restless, etc). I am contemplating where I may recruit people who'd be good for that - ( Read more... )

An old article, but a good one: http://www.alternet.org/story/13648/

If anyone's wondering what it's like being a conventionally attractive woman turning someone down on a dating site, here's a fairly representative example.

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Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-Riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his cap,
And called it macaroni.

If, like me, you never understood the macaroni reference, read this.

I was pretty sure they didn't have macaroni pasta back then but I also had no idea what else the word might mean. I went to a class "Can You Win a War with Music?" taught by no other ( Read more... )

I want to make a donation to a group that is not focused on emergency relief in Haiti but an organization that is going to be there for the long-term rebuilding effort.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I've been thinking of changing my number to the Portland area code. Is there a way where you can have a grace period when both the new and old numbers will reach your cell phone? Then I can have a message saying on such-and-such date, only such-and-such number will connect to me? I have AT&T.

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