In case no one’s noticed, posting has been kind of light of late as I’ve been in the final days of a huge project. Light posting is likely to continue for the next week or so as I’m traveling (though road trips have been known to generate some posts). This weekend I’m with my sweetheart [...]
UK shaken by ‘significant’ earthquake PA Wednesday, 27 February 2008 A “significant” earthquake shook the UK in the early hours of this morning, causing damage to buildings and leaving at least one person injured. The tremor hit at around 1am and was measured at 5.2 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was near Market Rasen, [...]
Saturday morning we had our Inside Outfitters men’s meeting with men from a couple of other churches and a large contingent from Minnesota Teen Challenge. During the worship part of the meeting we sang with an abridged version of the song “Yes” by Shekinah Glory. Will your heart and soul say “yes”? Will your spirit [...]
LaShawn Barber excerpted the following review of the latest Lenny Kravitz album from Blogcritics today: At 43, Lenny Kravitz is more self-reflective than usual. He recently spoke to Maxim magazine about his newly declared sexual abstinence, “a promise I made until I get married.” Sex-free for the past three years, Kravitz wants more than just [...]
Buffy Holt points out a sad state of affairs: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was lunchtime in one of Haiti’s worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a [...]
Tiger Lilly turns 14 today. She could have had her birthday a couple of weeks sooner, but she tarried past her due date and our doctor finally had to induce. I think he offered chocolate. Despite her initial hesitancy to meet the world she has not been shy about getting out into it, whether it’s [...]
Here are a couple of Super Bowl commercials that I missed last week but came across on YouTube. I’m not a big fan of Bud Light, but we do have birds, and these really make me laugh. bookmark to:
So every other day, Benny comes over and hangs out with us. Except for the other day when Faith went to, as the Reverend Mother put it, “Hang out with the monks” at the seminary/monastery. Which made me veeerry suspicious. They could be doing anything!!! You know those wily monks. They’re right up there with [...]
Let’s see, you could have an acerbic, irascible, quick-with-quip wounded war veteran who is much older than his opponent as the Republican nominee for president, who could be going against a fresh, young face who has come out of nowhere in recent years to infuse and enthuse an electorate that seems eager for change. How [...]
Well that was an exciting Super Bowl yesterday though some might say it didn’t measure up to other years. Similarly, I thought the Super Bowl commercials were pretty good overall, though some might say this was a down year. As for me, my standards may have been irreversibly lowered after last year; from now on [...]
