The sermon in church today was mostly about whales and God's relation to Job (creator, full stop), but the children's sermon today was about this hymn, and indirectly about the slaughter of innocents in a synogogue in Pittsburgh yesterday. The minister started out talking about how they were killed in a sanctuary, but said that it isn't realy the ( Read more... )

Most of my clients want to invest in "socially responsible" funds. I need to smooth out my answer to this. I still haven't found a really good conversation about this anywhere in my industry even though I've tried from various times ( Read more... )

I was walking with my husband this weekend and mentioned that Donald Trump had told CNN that being president was harder than he imagined. I said that I kept waiting for him to resign, that I figured he would grow bored of having a job and quit when the pressure became unpleasant ( Read more... )

Here's a journal entry I made after talking to a Trump supporter last March.

He died at the age of 58 this summer. He literally didn't survive the Obama administration.

Listen to his voice: this is a Trump voter.

http://gwendally.livejournal.com/975272.html

The other day I had a chance to have a surprisingly open and honest and vulnerable discussion with a person who voted for Trump ( Read more... )

I recently heard that 40% of people only get their news from Facebook feeds.  (I'm not quickly finding the cite/site for this, but here's Pew Research from 2013 saying a similar thing: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/16/12-trends- ( Read more... )

What does "Homeopathy" mean to you? Do you use it in a sentence? What sentence? When you see it, what do you think it means?

I am pretty confused by the way I see this word being used and I suspect it has a changing meaning.

Elections happened ( Read more... )

So a guy goes to the emergency room and says he's been in Liberia, he's scared he has ebola. And the emergency room sends him home with antibiotics for a viral disease.

Yep. That's pretty much exactly what I told my husband would happen.

Seriously? Go to war in Syria ( Read more... )