I am quite late at this and it will probably be past the first of the year when I finish, but I think it is worth the effort. So… Following Ed’s lead I too will being the Third Annual Ralphies with music. Sort of. As much as I love music, […]
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It wasn’t much, but it has been fun. After this picture we went to the golf course and there was more snow and steeper hills! Viel spaß!
TWO HOLY MEN AND . . . A CAT If, as Annie Lamott s… If, as Annie Lamott says, “laughter is carbonated holiness,” Steve Carrell is surely a holy man. (Via The Dude Abides.) The link to donate is here.
Today is our daughter’s 9th birthday. Happy Bday Izzy! Mom shared this at her blog. Actually, at 5:44 p.m. she will officially turn nine. We call her chocolate drops because her eyes are like two dark chocolate Lindt balls with cocoa beans inside. They are deep and beautiful. I took […]
I was recently invited by a PSU student to join a FaceBook group with the above name. It was started by a group of friends who went to NOLA 10 months after Katrina and have produced a film about that experienced called “Water-Proof.” It says it will appear in October […]
Get out your hammer and nails! The Weekender bloggerwrites When I was a small child growing up in a conservative Presbyterian church, we spent the evening of Halloween dressed in late medieval or Renaissance clothing at church, eating candied apples and watching grown-ups reenact the nailing of Ninety-Five Theses. It’s […]
Autumn 06 Originally uploaded by targuman2002. Folks, I cannot tell you how much we missed weather other than rain! (BTW, I am posting using Flickr and it appears that it smushes the image to a set width. I know… I could adjust it. But just click on the pic to […]
Bishop Charles Jenkins is the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana (our home of 9 years) and relays some of the struggles of rebuilding that come from a history of political malfeasance. Be sure to read it all. As I travel across this nation seeking support for the work […]
My life is a little busier than in the past. This is a light week for me (click to see the full size, images blurred to protect the innocent):
I just heard of this story through PaleoJudaica. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, 1943-2006. I only met her on one or two occasions, but her work is (should be) well known to all in our fields. She will be sorely missed.