Recently, I began reading Fifty Shades of Grey. There is a reason for this, and it's got little enough to do with the content. Specifically, I rose to the challenge that skylark913 offered, when she said, if I would review it, she'd print the review for me. And of course, I said, "Get me the book, and you'll get a review." She has gotten me the book. So, ( Read more... )

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I don't do a lot with pendulums, but as we've been building stock at The Magical Druid, I realized that something useful might be a Druidic Pendulum Board, for those who are interested in adding dowsing to their druidry ( Read more... )

A comment by one of the members of Three Cranes Grove, ADF, got me thinking about what it means to be approaching the 10-year mark as a Grove. It certainly means something special. . . but how do we embrace, celebrate, and perpetuate our past in a meaningful way, while still looking to the future?

When I ported our Grove calendar over to Google ( Read more... )

I am a fan of Blu-ray, I think it's no secret. I like the quality of the sound and the video. Today, though, I saw something that made me very happy:

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Indiana Jones is coming to Blu-ray!

And not just that last one, but all three. (Let's be honest here, Raiders was the best of the series.) I'll be ordering all that ( Read more... )

This morning, I got my first e-card of the season. For those wondering, I dropped her a note first, and then realized that with the secular Christmas holiday coming up, it might be wise to make a note of this for general consumption:

Please, do not send me an e-card.I mean it. For anything, ever, really. Under any circumstance. I don't care how ( Read more... )

Today, I received an invitation to a celebration of my fiftieth anniversary of my graduation from Ohio State. Yep, the good ol' days, when Woody was coaching and I was but a mere pup of a lad. . .

Indeed, you read that right: somehow, Ohio State thinks I've graduated for 50 years ago and that I still have the same e-mail address they had on file ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right: after leaving a meeting at the Univesity of Cincinnati last week, I pulled out of thier parking garage with a large volume of gold dollar coins from the parking meter, owing primarily to the large bill I had stuck in the meter in order to get out of the garage ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that was something like a short conversation with myself. It involved a trip to the zoo and how the bald eagles are kept there ( Read more... )