From the NYT: World Leaders Release Plan for Resolving East/West Rift
Mr. Annan said in a written statement: “The problem is not the Koran or the Torah or the Bible. Indeed, I have often said that the problem is never the faith, it is the faithful and how they behave toward each other.”
Also from NYT: For […]

I have a phone interview for this job. In fifteen minutes.
Eeep!

Quite a while ago, I discovered BeliefNet’s Belief-o-Matic — a tool for ostensibly figuring out which religion best aligns with your worldview. At the time, the answer for me was that I best fit Mainline to Liberal Protestantism. This fit me quite well, and even helped me to realize that there’s a whole […]

Spotted today: vanity license plate “SMPLIFY”
On a BMW X5. Whaaaa? Um, okay.
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driving along a country-ish road in Arizona
Mike: Oh! That burns me up Did you see that church?
Me: No. What did it say?
Mike: “No Jesus. No Peace. Know Jesus. Know Peace.”
Me: (mildly confused) Right, and?
Mike: It’s an ultimatum, a threat. […]

After 1-1/2 weeks, I *finally* got a reply from a company here in town which has a Marketing position that seems pretty much tailor-made to my background. I just shot the HR Director a reply re: salary requirements, and now am crossing my fingers to get an interview.
A real job at a real company. […]

Bwuhahahahaha.

You Are Changing Leaves

Pretty, but soon dead.

What Part of Fall Are You?

(cross-posted at Maya’s Meanderings
Yes, I know — I haven’t posted in ages. I’ll start catching up before long, but this was just too good to not link.
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Mary P. wrote a post that I wish I’d written — about parents’ attitudes toward their children and sex.
When I was a young married with a baby girl, […]

Ahhhhhhhh!
I watched Project Runway tonight, convinced from the beginning that Uli would be out. Instead, she pulled out a beautiful dress that still looked very “her” without being a repeat of what she’s done again…and again…and again. (Though, I’d die to wear her couture dress — it was gorgeous!)
(spoilers below)

Finally, at the end, […]

You’ve probably already noticed that my posts are rather spotty — busy some days, then nothing for a week. This is likely to continue for the next couple of months. The first reason for this is obvious: I’m freakin’ busy. I’m moving in less than two weeks (hooray!), and at the […]

Yet another reason nursing should be encouraged*:
Weight Benefit Seen Even if Mothers Are Obese or Have Diabetes
Sept. 26, 2006 — Breastfed babies are less likely to grow into overweight children than those fed formula, even if their mothers are obese or have diabetes, research confirms.
Exclusively breastfed babies had roughly a 34% reduced risk of being […]

First: News
Nope, not mine this time — I literally mean “the news.” Jim Wallis (Sojourners) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) will be on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric this evening to discus the “Moral Direction of our Country.” I’m recording it, and if there’s anything worth talking (or ranting) about, […]

I recently wrote a post, Our nation is falling apart. As commenter Stevo has pointed out, there’s very little factual truth in the email I received as a forward (what, am I supposed to be surprised, or something?) and grumbled about in this space.
I still agree with my assessment of (and agreement with) the […]

Allison,
Happy one-month anniversary of our first email!
Love you,
M

Is that all it’s been? Seriously? Wow — that hardly seems possible.

Since I’m not in the mood to blog any of the deeper topics I’ve had in mind (work and worth, parenting and punishment as examples), I’m going to blatantly steal from a post by Orange at Bitch PhD:
Oprah Winfrey recommends keeping a “grateful journal” in which you “list five things that happened this day that […]