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Quote: Adventures and Inconveniences

Posted in quotations on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

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Stray Cats

Posted in musing on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My workplace is surrounded by some open spaces where stray cats congregate. Over the past couple of years, we have seen about 10 different cats, all hanging around, oblivious to the people watching them.
The cats seem to love life on their own. Self-sufficient, independent, they scorn humans and the bondage humans bring.
Sometimes, watching the cats [...]

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Quote: Good Judgement

Posted in quotations on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

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Technology For Parents

Posted in musing on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

With a school-aged child, I was suddenly thrust into the world of elementary school. I now have an appreciation for what my mother went through, juggling supplies, lunches, lunch money and such. Plus, growing up in Wisconsin, there was always the winter weather to be concerned about. Was it bad enough to cancel school? Or [...]

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You’ve got to be kidding…

Posted in soapbox on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I read today that the mother of the octuplets is now asking for donations to help support her children. So let’s recap this outrageous situation:

She’s a single mom.
She had six children before
She now has 14 children
The father is a sperm donor (for all kids)
She’s on food stamps
She has no job

OK, this is totally repugnant and [...]

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Quote: The Good Life

Posted in quotations on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The good life is not about looking good, feeling good, or having the goods, it’s about being good and doing good.
Rick Warren

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The No-Snow Snow Day

Posted in musing on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

From every news outlet, the message rang forth.
“3 to 6 inches of snow.”
We all expected school would be canceled, because the snow was supposed to hit overnight. And living in an area where there are over a million people and approximately two salt trucks, snow and ice shut us down when the rare storm blows [...]

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Quote: Rock Gardens

Posted in quotations on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

Richard Diran

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So Your Guru Whacks Out…

Posted in musing on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

OK, I’ll be the first to admit that no one is perfect, and that authors are human too. They have lives outside their books.
However, in the past few years I have found out things about three authors I had formerly enjoyed that have tainted my perspective of their works.
All three of the authors wrote non-fiction [...]

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