Reading Anne Lamott tonight and cracking up over:
"Here are the two best prayers that I know: "Help me, help me, help me," and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, "Whatever," and then for the evening, "Oh, well," but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children."

I've been tapped to do a cover for the order of service for the 12/7 service at our church, because the regular artist is on vacation. The sermon's theme? "Anxiety." How appropriate for me! I was actually avoiding that theme, and going for either something generic-winter or relevant to the new member welcoming. Now I am thinking maybe I should just ( Read more... )

"Art History Major: 88% Artiste ( Read more... )

After dinner tonight, as the adults are finishing off their nth glass of wine and the kids are running around, I finally asked... and, according to a senior editor, "Interplanet Janet" *never* comes up at the offices of Sky & Telescope magazine.

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Idea of the month:
I talked a zoology professor into talking her editor into a Creation Myth A Day calendar, for science teachers "encouraged" to "present alternatives to evolution ( Read more... )

This past weekend, we went to Ferry Beach with a bunch of other families. I complained a lot, which makes me feel like an asshole (and here I am complaining about complaining a lot)- none of it was unjustified complaining (still unwell from food poisoning, unsupervised kids causing trouble and/or relying on us for parenting, no planned vegetarian ( Read more... )