Heaven

It takes a lot of courage to say what you believe. I’ve done it very seldomly. Maybe because I don’t want to come across as a zealot. Maybe because belief is of such a sacred nature, its hard to set it out there to be examined and picked apart. I believe [...]

The Jack Bauer America

Some of the best discussions I have with BJay happen just as I’m about to drop off to sleep. I suspect he thinks that I’ll more readily agree with him when I’m sleepy. About a week ago B decided to start an interesting political discussion that involved Jack Bauer, John McCain, The US [...]

Shape Pilates dvd

I just tried this pilates workout. It is really hard to do pilates from a dvd. Its hard to know if you are doing it right. I’ve tried a couple different ones and I hated them. I bought the Windsor one off the tv and really hated it. It was [...]

Alpha moms

I caught a segment of The Today show the other day where this woman was talking about Alpha-moms. Her comment was so perfect, she said Alpha moms are the ones who plan the parties and execute all creative control on a project. The Beta moms might get asked to bring paper towels and [...]

little strings

Before I went to India I read Vikram Seth’s tome “A Suitable Boy”. The professor who assigned me work for my independent study (the argument that sealed the deal in convincing my parents I should go half way around the world with a [crazy] woman I barely knew) assigned me the book. I [...]

The solar system

The solar system has come to Asher’s room. As you can see, the kids were so excited about it. Asher has expanded his love of Star Wars to include everything that has to do with space. So our new favorite show (well in the past few months anyway) is Zula Patrol. [...]

Love Day

The pictures tell the story.

I get a few email forwards. Not too many. Usually they are fairly amusing. Which means that the people who have my email address in their address book are pretty selective about forwarding emails. I’m lucky. I recently got this email forward about Soldiers. I’m sure its been around [...]

Pugnis et Calcibus

WITH MIGHT AND MAIN – “By all means at hand; with all one’s strength. In times past, ‘main’ was a common word meaning physical strength. In that sense, it survives only in its association with ‘might.’ In one of the Wakefield Plays, dating from the early 15th century, there is the line ‘with mayn and [...]

New Soul–A credit to the French

I am ashamed to say that I am completely out of the loop when it comes to popular music. I don’t even listen to the radio, really. Occasionally NPR, sometimes classics–or if I’m driving alone I’ll find a classic rock station. But this song, featured in the new Mac Air add struck [...]