So last night for supper, I had two young men try to Mormonize me, which I had never had done to me before. It was interesting, like a date, a date with Jesus or Joseph Smith, maybe ( Read more... )

On Sunday, my sister, her busted foot, my husband and I were at House of Dynasty eating Chinese food. I had the bowl of rice up near my mouth and was using chopsticks instead of a fork, because I was instructed at an early age that if you're gonna eat Chinese food, doing it right includes chopsticks ( Read more... )

I observed that first moment of silence this morning dozing on the toilet ( Read more... )

If I were a conjurer, I'd be hunting through my closets for my magicalist togs, because there has not been a full lunar eclipse on the solstice since 1378. According to Dr. Tony Phillips, NASA fun astronomy-for-the-masses guy at NASA Science News.

It'll look something like this, only spookier:


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I wish I had gotten a snap of the larger more hysterically explicit1 poster in the same series, but I notice they disappeared from the metro walls soon after they came out, leaving only this come-on to football fans:


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Interesting talk by ethnomusicologist Jon Dueck, on Kernlieder, Mennonite Choruses, and the Russlaender Mennonites in Manitoba. Mr. Dueck even sang a little for us, a hymn in English, and I noticed that woman in the back was starting to sing along a bit. I didn't recognize it, something about finding that beautiful stream or the like ( Read more... )

I loved this vid posted by lolanoone, because it gave me a thought ( Read more... )