On Saturday, the worm friends and I trekked up to Camp Winding River up at Dearborn, MO to hang out with some girl scouts. In my capacity as "Worm Lady," I brought a traveling exhibit on composting, which consisted of a few visual aids and my worm friends in a impromptu shoebox carrying case. As the girls (From Kdg-HS) were setting up their unit ( Read more... )

When gryffin23 and I were freshlings, we stumbled across the internet phenomenon known as David Duchovny, why won't you love me? by Bree Sharp which you can watch here. For those of you who don't remember, David Duchovny played Fox Mulder on the X-files, as the FBI agent who "wanted to believe." Anyway, Gryffin and I thought this was possibly the most ( Read more... )

Ida Stack passed away this week at the age of 88. I first met Ida as an 11 year old spending my first summer away from home at Camp Ben Frankel in Carbondale, IL. Ida was this energetic gray-haired presence who led singing at all of our meals. At breakfast, we'd start off with "Oh What a beautiful morning" (from Oklahoma!) or "Kum Bachur Atzel ( Read more... )

If you were a schoolchild in the Kansas City metro area today, it was a snow day. At a balmy 8 deg F, it was a bit cold to actually play in the snow. This morning, as I got dressed, I was watching the morning news to find out road conditions. I watched the school closings list crawl across the bottom of the screen. When I saw the listing for my ( Read more... )

Gakked from Wylie Cox on Facebook:

Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities by Rebecca Reider.
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Okay, I know the title is macabre (which is in complete contrast to my unusually sunny mood) but the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was playing on public radio when I got in my car this afternoon, so it's kind of stuck in my head. The weather outside is kind of drizzly, in this hour of Sunday Afternoon that Douglas Adams called, "The Long Dark ( Read more... )

Thursday night, I had the opportunity to attend a brainstorming session held in a last-ditch effort to save Coro Kansas City. Coro is an awesome program that aims to foster civic engagement amoung young people by exposing them to how the various components of a city work together. In Kansas City, the program has been a 10-week summer internship, ( Read more... )

Still sick. Came home early from work today and lay on my bed with the cat watching bad daytime television. (Even if you have cable, daytime tv sucks.)

Also, Still not kingColumbia College called me tonight for a donation. I coughed, and said, "whatever I pledged last year." The nice kid also told me that my employer would match my donation. Yay ( Read more... )

First of all, shout out to flolow for being part of the multi-talented Low clan. They sing, they dance, they draw, they do stand-up comedy, they drive big red vans full of unruly campers; in short, if you need a talent, they probably have it amongst their membership ( Read more... )

It's a been a busy few days here in llama-land ( Read more... )