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From The Writer's Almanac, with Garrison Kieler
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by Connie WanekFirst you'll come to the end of the freeway ( Read more... )

from the itty bitty kitty committee:

The Berkeley East Bay Humane Society has suffered a tremendous loss. A fire destroyed a huge portion of their facility (cat sheltering area, laundry facility and offices) and sadly took the lives of fifteen of their cats.( Read more... )

from the Iceland page, a couple weeks ago:

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Mile High Music Festival Announces a Super Sized Food Drive : Planet Green
The Mile High Music Festival will be held August 14 and 15 in Denver's Dick's Sporting Goods Park. And this year the Mile High Music Festival and non-profit organization Conscious Alliance are partnering to put on a mega food drive. The 2010 Mile High Food Drive benefits the ( Read more... )

Watching A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism on HBO [Home Box Office] right now (a perk of home care, sometimes: TV I wouldn't see otherwise- if it's quiet, if he sleeps). Watched Temple Grandin several times when it first came out [when I was at Hayward State in '89 I found a copy of her book Emergence: Labeled Autistic in the marked-down ( Read more... )

Abitare - international design magazine » the folding plug

God, I love good design. Everyday things should be easy to use. Easy to clean. Easy to store. And reusable, repairable. *wants one*

ten-things-to-do-in-manchester from velvetescape.com - StumbleUponwhy i need a year in the UK and enough money to live-and-not-have-to-work while there ( Read more... )

Shout-outs to: nverland and itsonlypaint and shegollum and foxrafer who have let me follow along while their own family health situations unfold. It helped more than you know, when talking things through with Mom and sis this weekend.

Thanks SO MUCH to alliwantisanelf for the lovely parcel of small boxes of good things: Dove chocolates with Martha Stewart hints inside the wrapper! and a beautiful ( Read more... )

but she rented me a guest studio- my own nice quiet room with bath and big bed and fridge and stove and tv and couch, and just down the hall from the gym room and this public computer with windows and IE onto which i loaded y!m so it will do for now ( Read more... )