I don't talk much about religion, and I'm not going to start now. But no matter your faith, please take a moment to watch this video from Advent Conspiracy. What would it take for you to make it this kind of holiday season?
I don't talk much about religion, and I'm not going to start now. But no matter your faith, please take a moment to watch this video from Advent Conspiracy. What would it take for you to make it this kind of holiday season?
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. – Rainer Maria Rilke Today is Black Friday, which means that yesterday was Thanksgiving. It is a holiday with a long and interesting history that has since ...
Sometimes you find cool things in the most unexpected places. Cabbages in Tomorrowland!
Thanksgiving week is almost upon us, and with it Black Friday. You would think that after people were killed last year, casualties of rampant consumerism, some of the enthusiasm for Black Friday would have waned. This does not seem to be the case, as people begin preparing to rise at the crack of dawn ...
My sourdough culture is dead. Again. I don't know why I can't seem to get this thing to live. I am alive. My pets are alive. Even my incredibly finicky bonsai tree is alive (and blooming!). But this little colony of yeast and lactobacillus just isn't happy with me.
Sometimes I wear myself out worrying about the big picture. I know I'm not the only one who does this. Just last week, Psychologists for Social Responsibility warned that if we do not see dramatic political action on climate change by the end of this year, there is a risk that ...
Yesterday, world leaders announced that they will not be seeking a politically binding climate change agreement at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December. The climate change treaty has been postponed until... some time next year. To anyone who has been ...
As a big fan of post-apocalyptic movies, I am super excited about 2012. It's like every great apocalyptic movie rolled into one, minus zombies. (It would be even cooler if there were zombies. Zombies make everything better.) Yesterday, I was struck when the preview came on my TV and I heard Danny Glover's voice ...
I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I first heard about NaNoWriMo during my senior year of college. For various reasons that ...
I have been a bit absent this week, pondering the questions posed in my last post, as well as the fascinating discussion going on over at Worldchanging in the comments of Transition ...
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