Ahem. (Dramatic throat clearing.)
I have an announcement to make.
Some of my friends and I just started collecting things.
(Some of you who are already convinced of my super-nerd status are picturing stamps or coins, I know it.)
But we’re not really collecting things as much as we’re collecting… people.
(See?! WAY less nerdy.)
Specifically, we’re collecting people in their [...]
So I’m still not a vegetarian.
But I tried my 1st fast-food veggie burger.
It tasted like a giant bean.
Which is to say, it tasted alright.
If you like big thick, bean cake with your pickles.
Long story short: it might have to grow on me.
Any suggestions for spicing up said-bean-patty (that do not involve sprinkling hamburger meat on it, although [...]
So, not that many years ago, I was enviro-oblivious.
One of those Americans who doesn’t think of themselves as particularly wasteful, but whose garbage can was always mysteriously refilled as soon as it was emptied.
Then one day I made some changes.
They weren’t anything catastrophic.
I didn’t chain myself to any trees on the chopping block. I have [...]
Last weekend, Chuck and the emperor and I got to catch up with our old (but let us emphasize,young) college friends, Jeff and Andre Shinabarger, at a shower for their newly adopted bambino–Jada Rae.
(Or if you want to follow the brand expansion, you could call her the Shina-baby)
But this is not just a baby shower [...]
I’ve mentioned, briefly, that some college friends, Jeff and Andre Shinabarger, run a forward-thinking charity called Gift Card Giver. The short version is they collect unused gift cards (any amount) and forward them to people in need. The long version is…well, you should watch their video (below).
Their latest efforts are aimed at the relief work [...]
Over the weekend, while I was in Saturday’s mystery location (Philadelphia), I received a message from Kathy Mystir, a friend who knew me back in my Save-the-World twenties. (Before you attribute undeserved maturity to me, I should confess my twenties ended just two years ago and, truth be told, I can still be unbearably idealistic [...]
Once again, Pat Robertson–perceived by many as speaking for the Christian faith as a whole–has blamed a natural disaster on an arbitrary sinful act of his own choosing.
This time? Haiti’s devastation, Robertson claims, was brought on by an undercover deal the Haitians made with the devil.
Sighhh.
Yes, its true.
He’s at it again with the pseudo-prophetic [...]
I had coffee with Cameron Conant today.
Yes, the Cameron Conant.
From Cape Verde.
That description kinda sets him up as an international jetsetter off to sample the world’s food and art. In actuality, he was home from the Peace Corps for the holidays. (The Peace Corps bit making him either more or less fascinating than a jetsetter…depending on who you [...]
A designer is doing a wordpress design for my website–countdown to something more streamlined and functional in about 15 days.In the designer’s portfolio, its hard to miss the following site: People You’ll See in Hell. The site is a showcase of death row inmates sent to the after-life for the sort of heinous crimes that [...]
As some of you know, my current project* is about change–or more specifically, why humans can’t afford not to change.Given this current tag line in my life, its hard not to be drawn by prostitute-turned-soccer-mom sorts of stuff like this.The story is plucked from the life of Jaime Taylor, who…little known SAU fact**…was in the [...]
