Is there a backward history book? I love news. I love current events. I'm fairly knowledgeable about the Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton years, and I can get into Watergate and Vietnam era. But I've never really cared about all the boring stuff that happened before my parents got married. And now I find myself reading primary documents because I ( Read more... )

I had a bag of Peanut M&M's.
-- 45% were green
-- 20% were yellow
-- 15% were blue
-- 10% were orange
-- 10% were red

I am not hungover. Just bored.

Shelly and I joined Bert and Lynn at their cabin near Kutztown. We watched Affliction and then talked about the novel and the film. I appreciated the novel more after seeing the film. Not that the film added anything to my understanding; it just made the book seem better. Visually, the scenes appeared just as I'd pictured them, except where things ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very HighLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)ModerateLevel 3 (Gluttonous)LowLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)LowLevel 6 - The City of Dis ( ( Read more... )

Better late than never

1. Stop being so jealous. This will be hard, and I'm going to need help. I don't even know how to start. But my jealousy has made me lose too many friends over the years, and it could make me rot from the inside out.

2. Become more forgiving. Rabbi Holtzman had a point when she said that saying we're sorry is easier for ( Read more... )

I can't remember a lovelier winter. It snowed again today, a beautiful powder that sticks to cars and trees but not to streets ( Read more... )

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What do you do when you're alone in the elevator? I dance, sometimes, or do pseudo-pushups against the wall. At the very least, I close my eyes and try to calculate how many floors I've passed. The ride from the lobby to my apartment is too short to whip out a book, too long not to get bored.