Mixed Moss

Inspirational book passage of the week!
This is from book called An Old-fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott. It was a favorite of mine in Jr. High and is still in my top 10 list. Highly inspirational and rather humbling at the same time. Definitely makes me want to clean up my act and be a […]

Tonight I received some heart-breaking news. So I’m reposting this poem, because it is as true tonight as it was when I wrote it in September.
Death of the Fairy Tale
There it lay in jagged shards about my feet:
My shattered vision of what wasn’t.
Rosy-hued like glasses, a stained-glass image of my life
Conceptions of myself, my God, […]

Here are the bunny-shaped cakes I made for Easter. And, this is the first photo I’ve ever put up on my blog! Aren’t you impressed? (Actually, Eric did all the hard work. Thanks, Eric!)

Aren’t they super-cute?

So on Easter Sunday I watched Easter Parade with my dad, and now I have “Steppin’ Out” stuck in my head. I wish I could tap dance like Ann Miller. I heard that at the time it was made, they took the footage of her dancing in this film and slowed it down and counted […]

Shout out to Eric for posting the link to this on his blog. A fairly accurate assessment of the U.S. government’s position on Darfur, with the exception that his advice to the U.S. about how to interact with the security council should be taken with a grain of salt.
The situation must be dealt with a […]

Props to my Aunt Lori, who has a very funny post on her xanga. It’s a list of great new words. From her post:
“The Washington Post’s Style Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.”
Here’s the […]

Follow the link and then watch athe video clip of this news article. This is totally hysterical! I live in Fairview Heights; all of this took place a few blocks from my house. I love it. Run, cow, run! Where are the animal rights activists in this city? There should have been a much bigger […]

The other day Eric posted a list of things about himself (a pretty cool one at that), and one of the things he said was that Baroque and Classic Rock were the golden ages of music. I commented in defense of the Romantics and Impressionists. So, without further ado, here are the reasons Romantic Classical […]

So yesterday was Good Friday and I meant to put up a post about it but I got sleepy and fell asleep reading Agatha Christie instead. I love crime novels. I’m afraid I have terribly violent taste. But, they have to be intellectual too. Private investigators stumbling around having affairs with people and finding the […]

My dad was reminiscing about his sea scout days today and taught me a great boy scout song. Rather Christian, really. I enjoy it. Eric, you should try to introduce it at your chapel time. That would get you kicked out. Here it is.
Three Jolly Fishermen
There were three jolly fishermen.
There were three jolly fishermen.
Fisher, […]