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Today, January 19, we celebrate the 30th birthday of Buffy Anne Summers! As a tribute, I've created an alternate "Older and Far Away" tableau. Here's the premise: What if, instead of saying to Halfrek, "I wish I could make people stop going away," Dawn had made a different wish?

Behind the cut: What might have happened.

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The lovely and talented sdwolfpup has declared today, January 13, to be More Joy DayMy funny story for this morning: The other day I upgraded from iPhoto '08 to iPhoto '11, which offers face tagging. Last night I became totally obsessed with attempting to tag all 11,000 faces detected in my iPhoto library. Well, in addition actual human people, iPhoto also ( Read more... )

I hope it's a happy new year for all of you, anyway ( Read more... )

One of the things I love about belonging to a UU congregation is that we get to learn about all kinds of holidays. Last month I spoke about Diwali, which turned out to be even more interesting than I expected it to be. And on Sunday morning I gave my second sermon about Hanukkah. Last year I talked a lot about history; this year, I went for the ( Read more... )

I meant to post this sermon a year ago when I wrote it, and I just now realized that I never got around to it. So, for anyone who's interested in a fairly detailed look at the "true" history of Hanukkah and some of its possible implications, here it is.

The True Meaning of Hanukkah?

The book I read for the children’s story this morning, Festival ( Read more... )

So I was really excited to read about the opening of the Google eBookstore, which will allow readers to buy ebooks from the Web sites of independent bookstores. I mean, I like ebooks, I like indie bookstores - it seems like a perfect combination, right ( Read more... )

I love the rain at this time of year. I love sitting in the house and hearing it on the roof, and I love going out in my hiking boots and raincoat and splashing in the puddles. I love the glow of red and yellow leaves against the grey sky and the view down Fremont Avenue of storm clouds piled on top of the mountains. I even love the chill in the ( Read more... )

If you'd told me thirty years ago that one day, I'd be supporting an old white dude over one of Princeton's first female graduates, I'd have laughed at you ( Read more... )

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