What’s Behind the 4-Minute Mile, Starbucks, and the Moon Landing? The Power of Impossible Thinking
What’s Worse Than Needing a Cane?
Getting used to the damned thing and then managing to break it! It has a lifetime guarantee, but I want it NOW!
QOTD: Mary Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. –Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (1759-1797)
God’s Billboards
I love the new additions at Says Who? Says God. A few of them: Stop smirking, America. I’m talking to you, too. I don’t blame video games when my children start shooting each other. I’m concerned about children’s education. I…
SEDF
20 Questions to a Better Personality You are an SEDF—Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into…
Birthday Boy!
Happy Birthday, dwivian! I hope you actually get to spend time with elfgirl and the chilluns to celebrate.
Eeek!
Dear gods. The Fed filked.
Poetry Fix: What We Miss
What We Miss by Sarah Manguso Who says it’s so easy to save a life? In the middle of an interview for the job you might get you see the cat from the window of the seven- teenth floor just…
Where?
This won’t hurt much by Terry Jones For some time now, I’ve been trying to find out where my son goes after choir practice. He simply refuses to tell me. He says it’s no business of mine where he goes…
A Milestone
Yesterday, sambear and shadowkatt spent much time out in the world. When they returned, they presented me with my first cane. Technically, it isn’t a cane. It’s a “walking stick” or a “trekking pole” or something like that. It’s made…