Happy Diwali! While dressing up for work in a shimmery pyjama juba, a.k.a. salwar kameez, I discovered that I don't have any kumkum, a.k.a. kunkuma, a.k.a. bindi, a.k.a. the red dot you wear in the …
Steve Robertson knows Ashcroft stories and I need to get some from him - such an intriguing figure! I always figured I had an in with Ashcroft since Steve knew his son at Rice. Professor …
When I was a sophomore at UC Berkeley auditing Andrew Creighton's wonderful introductory sociology class, he had us read chapters from Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking first off to remind us what humans can do …
Two of my favorite Christianity bloggers: Real Live Preacher and Slacktivist. I imagine that the Preacher, a.k.a. Gordon Atkinson, would enjoy Douglas Coupland's book All Families Are Psychotic, and now I find that Fred Clark …
If you are considering clothing purchases for yourself or others, and you are like me and know nothing of fashion or style, please read The Morning News on women's clothes and men's clothes. Or you …
A baby elephant. Another baby elephant. A tortoise. A baby penguin. A baby panda. A baby human. A baby human and a fake baby dog. An adult human and a fake otter.
Things to remember about the several hours after that last hope: Pizza, booze, CNN, increasingly grim jokes. I couldn't believe that Coburn won, Bunning won, that the GOP would be consolidating its control of the …
Things to remember about Election Day, November second, 2004: Going to sleep at 1:30 the morning of, crying and praying. I can't tell where the cold draft in my room is coming from, and it …
In other doctor's office news, Highlights for Children is still lots of fun. Their "caption this photo/cartoon" contests get much more creative entries than those in non-kids' magazines do.
