that was, surprisingly, a lot better than i had expected. i recall distinctly when i hit the epilogue the first time, 4 years ago, feeling a strong urge to fling the thing across the room and refraining because it was a library book ( Read more... )

dancing, i've decided, is a lot like life ( Read more... )

christians talk a lot about persecution-- being persecuted for their faith by the world around them, etc. and it's definitely true in other countries...

but here in the usa, i feel like it's the nonchristians who are persecuted more.

so in stereotype class today we were talking about what personal factors/individual differences play into prejudice, and tangentially a point came up that i think pretty much sums up my thoughts on religion ( Read more... )

there are a number of reasons it's difficult to talk about religion. imho, there are a few conditions that (imho) need to be met for a safe and open discussion of such ( Read more... )

today, i think i realized a little bit how fleeting these moments are, these years when we live with all the people we know and like, when we can call up people and walk over to watch tv with them or make spontaneous dinner or coffee plans ( Read more... )

friday afternoon, our little theological discussion group had its first guest speaker: a religion professor. it was actually a really good session; not only was the professor a really smart guy who really knew his stuff, he also had no problem speaking openly about his religious views, which were really interesting, and just overall seemed like a ( Read more... )

so i was researching (re: googling) graduate schools with science writing programs. wanna hear the list? ucsc, nyu, jhu, bu, mit. clearly i've never learned the nature of "safety schools." but but there really aren't that many science writing programs out there, specially ones that are open to science majors and not just journalists-- there was one ( Read more... )

so i was meaning to move on, but it seems i need to get a good rant in. ( go! )

so i've been getting the women's health policy newsletter from national partnership for a while now, and i felt the urge to share one of the news clippets from today.

( blah blah beginning of clippet snip )