*My husband stayed home today because last night. when he uh. tried to leap over a snow bank, and flipped over (it was almost funny-the kids were looking outside the window and said “hey Mom, there’s some kind of animal out there,” and it was my poor husband crawling out of the bank covered in… Continue reading A Much Needed Day Off
Uh Oh, My Bishop’s in Trouble
I have no opinion, well maybe a small one about the truth to these allegations. Either way, the ramifications are quite scary.
Blog decor
I was fooling around with graphics and came up with a button for the group read: Help yourself to the image if you’d like to put it on your blog — just put link tags around the img src code to link it back to the group read. Please drop me an email if you… Continue reading Blog decor
Lileks on the Counterculture
Heard a John Kerry speech today: ended with “Purple Haze”, I think. As a Hendrix tune for the campaign, it’s better than “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire,” which would be the most inapt Kerry tune imaginable. He has no fire. He wouldn’t catch fire if you doused him in kerosene and shot Roman… Continue reading Lileks on the Counterculture
The Virtue of Courtesy
We are obliged to keep our credit cards immaculate out of deference to sensitive machinery. But when it comes to human interaction, at least in the popular style exhibited on the immensely successful Jerry Springer Show, gross insensitivity to other peoples feelings is the order of the day….
St Blog Awards
Time to vote! Thanks to Alicia for the heads up — and congratulations to her on her nomination. And thanks to whoever nominated us!
Alicia Offers Advice About My Overeating Four Year Old
I mentioned before my four year old is eating everything in site and it drives me nuts because I view it as gluttony. It is hard to get out of the house to get food with 5 feet tall snow drifts in the path of my front door, so I am very frustrated when I… Continue reading Alicia Offers Advice About My Overeating Four Year Old
Well Read Children
If you could name the one book every child should have read by the time they were, let’s say thirteen, what would it be?