February 2012
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Now trending on Google: Lint
By Steve Padilla
2:27 PM EST, February 22, 2012
Google Trends may not be a window into America’s soul, but it certainly shows what’s on the minds of those searching the Internet. And then there are days, like Wednesday, when it appears to demonstrate Americans’ spelling and typing prowess. Google Trends scours the Internet for common search terms and then ranks them by interest (which isn’t...
Why Do Lent? (a beginner's guide) →
katherine:
“Why a Failing Lent Actually Succeeds.”
Have a good Ash Wednesday, y’all.
January 2012
6 posts
Nice sentiment: In the era of big boxes, a day for...
From the Miami Herald, Wed, Jan. 25, 2012
By AMY SANCETTA Associated Press
It began quietly, as an email to 40 friends.
But when a steady stream of customers began coming through the door before the family-owned Chagrin Hardware had even opened for the day on Saturday, it was clear that it had turned into much more than that.
The idea started with Jim Black, a resident of Chagrin Falls, a...
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Review of Beauty Fixation Make Up Remover
Santa brought me something I thought was a bit different and somewhat intriguing - a handy, dandy little travel case of 24 pre-filled portable swabs/applicators to remove make up. Each swab comes with 0.15 ml. each of eye make up remover contained within the “stick” part. That means I won’t need to bring a separate little bottle to go with my cotton swabs when traveling. I...
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
5 posts
Halloween?
Maybe we just don’t have enough kids the right age in our neighborhood anymore, but I’ve got to say I was surprised to have just one trick-or-treater show up at our door. He was a cute blonde kid I hadn’t seen before, dressed up like some super hero or other as I recall. His dad was complimentary, though, about our plants on the front porch and said someone must have a green...
October 2011
20 posts
Survival of the Fittest
Lucky for me, my two, glossy, dark green, bud-laden camellias to the left of the oak stump survived the tree removal. When I left for work the day the tree came down, the tree-trimmers were moving in a truck with a cherry picker and aiming straight for them. I couldn’t watch what surely was to come… I was pretty relieved and pleased to see they weren’t casualties when I got...
The Tiniest Teacher
The Responsibility Project, Liberty Mutual Insurance
February 18, 2011 by Ethan Watters
Can infants teach older children empathy? Canadian educator Mary Gordon is certain they can. In 1996 she founded a program called Roots of Empathy that brings an infant into an elementary classroom numerous times over the course of a year to help children identify and reflect on their own thoughts and...
We Find Comfort in the Order of Writing Things...
By CINDY KRISCHER GOODMAN MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Lakeland Ledger, Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 10:32 p.m.
It’s 5 o’clock in the morning, and the house is quiet except for snores. I’m sitting up in bed scribbling a to-do list in the dark on a small notepad. It’s a habit that started a few years ago when I would awake from a sound sleep with tasks streaming...
Turn beautyberries into bright jelly
By Vanessa Walthall Special to the Chronicle
Usually we focus on native plants and their importance to wildlife. The fruits and mast (nuts, acorns, cones) produced by most native plants are relished by all kinds of wildlife — birds, squirrels, insects, raccoons. Often humans can use the same native plants, although most people have become too disconnected from nature to realize this.
One native...
Food for thought?
What does the things on the wall in your office or cubicle say about you?
That question was posed to me during a training I took on cultural competency the other day. I didn’t have to actually answer, but it sure made me think about it. What does having a couple of diplomas on one wall, a couple of posters about the Brothers Grimm, plus an autographed photo of George Takei really say...
September 2011
10 posts
“Now here’s something you don’t often see:
“Authorities are...”
– Giant snail invasion being battled in Miami-Dade
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/mh-giant-snail-invasion-20110916,0,3879407.story
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Chintzy Chomps: Oh Momma Edamame Dip →
yocilantro:
Since I got such a rockin’ response in my call for requests in that last post, today I’ll share my recipe for Lemony Lemur Stew. JK no one responded so instead, you’ll get the steps to make Oh Momma Edamame Dip. Sorry for the psych out.
My friend Texas jokes that everything I make…
~ Coincidentally, I noticed frozen edamames for the first time at the grocery store...
August 2011
2 posts
“It’s like one of the Twilight movies, only with aliens instead of...”
– Eric’s take on the movie “I am Number Four.”
- Kinda true, but it was still fun! Lots of explosions and a couple of twists.